A93091:582
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, If it be unlawful by divine institution, may not evil consequences be added, and if both hold, are not our reasons the more strong? What needeth then such a Reply?
Secondly, If it bee unlawfull by divine institution, may not evill consequences bee added, and if both hold, are not our reasons the more strong? What needeth then such a Reply?
Thirdly, We have oft granted a remote right, but next and immediate we still deny, and we conceive no other order of God in his Churches to prevent such evils, then by joining to the instituted Churches of Christ?
Thirdly, We have oft granted a remote right, but next and immediate we still deny, and wee conceive no other order of God in his Churches to prevent such evils, then by joyning to the instituted Churches of Christ?
Reply. Seals may be profaned when the dispensers cannot help it: but here is no fear or danger of such consequences necessary to follow: for we speak not of all sorts, at random, but of Christians professing the faith entirely, lawfully baptized, known and approved to the wise and judicious visible members of the Churches amongst us sufficiently known to you, or orderly recommended, &c.
Reply. Seals may bee prophaned when the dispensers cannot helpe it: but here is no feare or danger of such consequences necessary to follow: for wee speake not of all sorts, at randome, but of Christians professing the faith intirely, lawfully baptized, knowne and approved to the wise and judicious visible members of the Churches amongst us sufficiently knowne to you, or orderly recommended, &c.