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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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Secondly, Members of any true visible Church are subject, and so capable of censure, (though not in another Church) which is not in in the proposition. 2▪ Also they are capable of censures mediately by and in that other Church, if they there offend: for that Church may admonish and prosecute the admonition in the Church to which they belong, and refuse society with them, if they repent not, which cannot be said of such as are ⟨p. 144⟩not members of any visible Church, who cannot be prosecuted to excommunication in any place.
Secondly, Members of any true visible Church are subject, and so capable of censure, (though not in another Church) which is not in in the proposition. 2▪ Also they are capable of censures mediately by and in that other Church, if they there offend: for that Church may admonish and prosecute the admonition in the Church to which they belong, and refuse society with them, if they repent not, which cannot bee said of such as are ⟨p. 144⟩not members of any visible Church, who cannot be prosecuted to excommunication in any place.
Thirdly, Public prayers of the Church, though they be an ordinance of Christ, and the Church have a special Communion in them, in which respect others do not share, yet they are not a privilege or peculiar ordinance, wherein none but the Church may share, for an Heathen or Infidel may hear the word and join in the prayers, being cultus naturalis, saying Amen unto the same; which cannot be said of seals and censures, being cultus institutus.
Thirdly, Publike prayers of the Church, though they bee an ordinance of Christ, and the Church have a speciall Communion in them, in which respect others do not share, yet they are not a priviledge or peculiar ordinance, wherein none but the Church may share, for an Heathen or Infidel may hear the word and joyne in the prayers, being cultus naturalis, saying Amen unto the same; which cannot be said of seales and censures, being cultus institutus.