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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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To the reader: ADVERTISEMENTS TO THE READER.To the reader: ADƲERTISEMENTS TO THE READER.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 The second is, That we dissent one from another as much as others from us, and perhaps the lesser part of us.
Answ. We confess we know but little, and that but in part, and therefore if we should say, that in some things we did not dissent, we should not speak the truth, nor say that we were sinful men; yet this we must speak to his praise whose we are, and whom we serve with our spirits in the Gospel of his Son; that although Satan hath been oft busy to make breaches among us, yet the Ministers of Christ have been hitherto generally (if not all) of one ⟨p. 29⟩heart and mind in the main and principal things of his Kingdom amongst us: and (which is observed by many) where ever differences are sown, yet the Ministers never disagree: and that although some differences have and do arise before their convening together, yet they never yet met, but grace hath over-wrestled corruption; peace, trouble; and truth, error; and so have most sweetly accorded in one; the thoughts of which Christ-like peaceableness of spirit and love, as it oft sweetens many other sorrows, so we desire to be spared herein, and that this our crown may not be taken from us by such passages, (suggesting great differences) as these be.
Answ. We confesse we know but little, and that but in part, and therefore if we should say, that in some things we did not dissent, we should not speak the truth, nor say that we were sinfull men; yet this we must speak to his praise whose we are, and whom we serve with our spirits in the Gospel of his Son; that although Satan hath been oft busie to make breaches among us, yet the Ministers of Christ have been hitherto generally (if not all) of one ⟨p. 29⟩heart and mind in the maine and principall things of his Kingdom amongst us: and (which is observed by many) where ever differences are sown, yet the Ministers never disagree: and that although some differences have and doe arise before their convening together, yet they never yet met, but grace hath over-wrestled corruption; peace, trouble; and truth, errour; and so have most sweetly accorded in one; the thoughts of which Christ-like peaceablenesse of spirit and love, as it oft sweetens many other sorrows, so we desire to bee spared herein, and that this our crowne may not bee taken from us by such passages, (suggesting great differences) as these be.