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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. Reason. 1. That sacred order God hath set in his visible Church, &c.
Answ. These words with all that follow, whatever they may seem to carry with them, are nothing but a bare denial of the positions in variety of expressions.
Answ. These words with all that follow, whatever they may seeme to carry with them, are nothing but a bare denyall of the positions in variety of expressions.
Reply. For first, The baptism of John was true baptism, &c. but he never demanded of those he received, whether they were entered into Church Covenant, &c.
Reply. For first, The baptisme of John was true baptisme, &c. but hee never demanded of those hee received, whether they were entered into Church Covenant, &c.
Answ. This we had in substance before, and is answered (with all the other instances in this first reason) in our answer to the Reply to the first consideration, and in other places; and therefore in vain here to repeat the same. And we have observed more then once your plain confession that the Apostles constituted Churches by baptism, even such Churches as they set Elders in by the election of the people.