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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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Answ. This is fully answered before in the first consideration; and that which is according to the rule and mind of Christ, and the first, and common practise of the Apostles, Act. 2. to join men to the Church when they baptized them, need not seem strange.
Answ. This is fully answered before in the first consideration; and that which is according to the rule and mind of Christ, and the first, and common practise of the Apostles, Act. 2. to joyne men to the Church when they baptized them, need not seeme strange.
Reply. In the Apostles practise two things are to be considered. First, the circumstance of the action. Secondly, the substance or quality of the Act. In some circumstances the baptizing of some of these might be extraordinary, but the substance, and quality of the action was grounded upon ⟨p. 166⟩•ules perpetual, and common to us and them. That is done in an extraordinary way, &c.
Reply. In the Apostles practise two things are to bee considered. First, the circumstance of the action. Secondly, the substance or quality of the Act. In some circumstances the baptizing of some of these might bee extraordinary, but the substance, and quality of the action was grounded upon ⟨p. 166⟩•ules perpetuall, and common to us and them. That is done in an extraordinary way, &c.