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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. Then the Apostles in dispensing seals walked by rules of Scripture and grounds common to us, and then the difficulty remaining is only this: Whether a Pastor may dispense seals to such as have right to them and do orderly desire them, though he be not yet a set member of a Congregation
Reply. Then the Apostles in dispensing seales walked by rules of Scripture and grounds common to us, and then the difficulty remaining is onely this: Whether a Pastour may dispense seales to such as have right to them and do orderly desire them, though hee be not yet a set member of a Congregation
Answ. We grant the Apostles ordinarily and generally baptized upon common grounds, but still when they did so they received them into some particular Church; and so baptized them: and in the like orderly way any pastor may do the same. Secondly, we answer, things may be done (sano sensu) upon common and moral grounds, and yet may not be done by others upon the same grounds. To give one instance in stead of many: the Apostles preached the Gospel to gather in the elect of God and to edify the Church &c. and Ministers upon the same common grounds must now preach the Gospel also: yet in that the Apostles on those grounds preached to all Nations, this doth not warrant Ministers now to do the like: so here though we baptize believers as they did, yet we may not do it to all in all cases as they did. And therefore the rule holds only when all circumstances are alike as well as the Common grounds.
Answ. Wee grant the Apostles ordinarily and generally baptized upon common grounds, but still when they did so they received them into some particular Church; and so baptized them: and in the like orderly way any pastour may doe the same. Secondly, we answer, things may bee done (sano sensu) upon common and morall grounds, and yet may not be done by others upon the same grounds. To give one instance in stead of many: the Apostles preached the Gospel to gather in the elect of God and to edifie the Church &c. and Ministers upon the same common grounds must now preach the Gospel also: yet in that the Apostles on those grounds preached to all Nations, this doth not warrant Ministers now to do the like: so here though we baptize beleevers as they did, yet wee may not do it to all in all cases as they did. And therefore the rule holds onely when all circumstances are alike as well as the Common grounds.