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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. 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.
Reply. Fourthly, the practise of the Apostles in receiving the faithful, &c. is backed on divine precept, &c.
Reply. Fourthly, the practise of the Apostles in receiving the faithfull, &c. is backed on divine precept, &c.
Answ. If you mean they baptized such without receiving them into some particular Church, we deny this assumption upon the grounds laid down before.
Answ. If you meane they baptized such without receiving them into some particular Church, wee deny this assumption upon the grounds laid downe before.