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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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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.
Reply. Secondly, A Person baptized, is not baptized into that particular Congregation only, but into all Churches, and in every particular▪ Church hath all the privileges of a baptized person, and so to be esteemed of them. Now the privilege of the baptized person, walking in the truth, and able to examine himself, is to be admitted to the Lords Supper, as all circumcised persons had right thereby to eat the Passover in any society, where God should choose to put his name there, Exod. 4. 47. Deut. 16. 1, 1.
Reply. Secondly, A Person baptized, is not baptized into that particular Congregation onely, but into all Churches, and in every particular▪ Church hath all the priviledges of a baptized person, and so to be esteemed of them. Now the priviledge of the baptized person, walking in the truth, and able to examine himselfe, is to bee admitted to the Lords Supper, as all circumcised persons had right thereby to eate the Passeover in any society, where God should choose to put his name there, Exod. 4. 47.