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A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible…A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible…
A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible church. In answer to the reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Ball. By Thomas Shepherd, sometimes fellow of Emanuel-College in Cambridge, and late pastor of Cambridge in New-England.A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible church. In answer to the reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Ball. By Thomas Shephard, sometimes fellow of Emanuel-Colledge in Cambridge, and late pastour of Cambridge in New-England.
London: printed by E. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1652
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That such an officer may put forth acts of his office towards those that are not of his proper flock. E. g. A Minister ex officio, & as a Pastor, not barely as a gifted man only may preach for the gathering in of those that are out of the Church, as well as for the edification of those that are within, Ephe. 4. 11, 12. and yet these are not his proper flock; it is the office of every Pastor to preach the Gospel, the means of converting, and therefore not only to intend but to attend the conversion of men, (especially in preaching to his own Congregation) for Christ hath sheep, (which are his flock) to be gathered into his fold, which are not the Ministers proper flock, and the Pastor is the Minister of Christ, as well as the Pastor of his own flock, and therefore he is to intend their gathering in as well as the good of his own flock.
That such an officer may put forth acts of his office towards those that are not of his proper flock. E. g. A Minister ex officio, & as a Pastor, not barely as a gifted man only may preach for the gathering in of those that are out of the Church, as well as for the edificaon of those that are within, Ephe. 4. 11, 12. and yet these are not his proper flock; it is the office of every Pastour to preach the Gospel, the meanes of converting, and therefore not onely to intend but to attend the conversion of men, (especially in preaching to his owne Congregation) for Christ hath sheep, (which are his flock) to bee gathered into his fold, which are not the Ministers proper flock, and the Pastour is the Minister of Christ, as well as the Pastour of his owne flock, and therefore he is to intend their gathering in as well as the good of his owne flock.
Again, as he hath the Keys of Office by preaching the Gospel, to open the Kingdom of heaven to believers, so also he may ex officio, shut it against impenitent sinners and unbelievers that reject his Doctrine, Matth. 16. 19.