A93091:662
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. 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.
Reply. Fifthly, In the first consideration you prove the seals to be the privilege of the Church in ordinary dispensation by this passage of Scripture, Then they that gladly received the word were baptized: but if the Apostles baptized by extraordinary dispensation in your sense this testimony is insufficient for that purpose.
Reply. Fiftly, In the first consideration you prove the seales to be the priviledge of the Church in ordinary dispensation by this passage of Scripture, Then they that gladly received the word were baptized: but if the Apostles baptized by extraordinary dispensation in your sense this testimony is insufficient for that purpose.