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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. Secondly, an argument follows necessarily from a particular example to a general, when the proof of one particular to another is made by force of the similitude common to the whole kind under which those particulars are contained. Now in this matter we speak of; no reason can be named why we should think it lawful for the Apostles to baptize such as were no set members, and the same should be unlawful in all cases for Pastors of particular Congregations.
Reply. Secondly, an argument followes necessarily from a particular example to a generall, when the proofe of one particular to another is made by force of the similitude common to the whole kind under which those particulars are contained. Now in this matter wee speake of; no reason can bee named why wee should thinke it lawfull for the Apostles to baptize such as were no set members, and the same should be unlawfull in all cases for Pastors of particular Congregations.
Answ. We deny that the Apostles did so ordinarily, and therefore your Argument doth not hold; if it be built upon the common practise; but if it be built upon some few special cases▪ we retort the Argument thus: That which the Apostles did ordinarily upon common grounds, that Pastors ought to do: but ordinarily they baptized Disciples, admitting them first into particular Churches; therefore in the third reason we grant the conclusion of it, that the Apostles did walk by ordinary rules generally.
Answ. Wee deny that the Apostles did so ordinarily, and therefore your Argument doth not hold; if it bee built upon the common practise; but if it be built upon some few speciall cases▪ we retort the Argument thus: That which the Apostles did ordinarily upon common grounds, that Pastors ought to doe: but ordinarily they baptized Disciples, admitting them first into particular Churches; therefore in the third reason wee grant the conclusion of it, that the Apostles did walke by ordinary rules generally.