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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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1 There are divers Keys that are diversly distributed to several subjects in respect of execution, and therefore the question should have been first stated: and what Keys are denied to the people and appropriated to the Officers. And what to some Officers, not to others, should have been showed before Arguments were pressed.
1 There are divers Keyes that are diversly distributed to severall subjects in respect of execution, and therefore the question should have beene first stated: and what Keyes are denied to the people and appropriated to the Officers. And what to some Officers, not to others, should have been shewed before Arguments were pressed.
2 The state of the Church being mixed of an Aristocracy to1 which belongs Office, and Democracy to which belongs privilege; hence the power of the Keys is twofold. 1 *Official power. 2 Fraternal. The first belonging to the guides of the Church, the other to the fraternity thereof.
2 The state of the Church being mixed of an Aristocracy to1 which belongs Office, and Democracy to which belongs priviledge; hence the power of the Keyes is twofold. 1 *Officiall power. 2 Fraternall. The first belonging to the guides of the Church, the other to the fraternity thereof.
- 1Pe• Mart. de Excom. Lo•. Come.Pe• Mart. de Excom. Lo. Com.