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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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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. Deut. 16. 1, 1.
Answ. This seemeth to touch the question it self, rather then the proposition of this fourth consideration: but we shall answer to it as it stands. 1. Here you grant that a person baptized, is baptized unto a particular Congregation: which we accept as a yielding of the question unawares. 2. If you mean, that such hath a liberty of Communion in a way of brotherly love in all Churches where he comes, we grant, (so far as nothing in him justly hinder) but if you mean that he is baptized into all Churches, so as to challenge a right of Membership in them all, we deny it, as a position that would take away all distinction of Churches, as we have formerly showed. 3. We deny that the Lords Supper is the privilege of a baptized person, able to examine himself, & walking in the truth as a baptized person, for then a Papist converted to the truth, able to examine himself, hath a right to the Lords Supper in every Church, before he make any profession of his conversion, and faith in any particular Church, for he may be such a baptized person. And we may say the like of an excommunicate penitent. 4. We grant that a baptized person is not only baptized in to that particular Church whereof he was first a member: For if it be a seal of his initiation into that particular Church only; then he must be rebaptized as oft as he enters into another, but he is baptized (in the sense formerly showed) into the whole mystical Body of Christ, and hence hath jus ad rem, or a remote right