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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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Your fourth Reason we have had twice before, and answered the same.
Your fourth Reason wee have had twice before, and answered the same.
Reply. To our answer of the first objection; from the Instances of the Centurion, Lydia, the Jailer, and the Eunuch.
Reply. To our answer of the first objection; from the Instances of the Centurion, Lydia, the Jailour, and the Eunuch.
First, If where the holy Ghost is given and received, and faith professed according to Gods Ordinance, there none may hinder from being baptized (soil▪ by such as have power to baptize them,) then either such are members of the Church, or baptism is not a privilege of the Church; then it is not essential to baptism in the first institution that it should be dispensed to none but members of a Congregational assembly.
First, If where the holy Ghost is given and received, and faith professed according to Gods Ordinance, there none may hinder from being baptized (soil▪ by such as have power to baptize them,) then either such are members of the Church, or baptisme is not a priviledge of the Church; then it is not essentiall to baptisme in the first institution that it should bee dispensed to none but members of a Congregationall assembly.