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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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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.
- *Official.Officiall.
3 The official power of the Keys is a power to act with authority in the name of Christ ministerially in opening and shutting, binding and loosing, &c. In respect of which Office (while the Minister acts according to the will of Christ) he is over the Church in things properly Ecclesiastical, because he stands in the room of Christ, and comes in his name, and hence in those Church acts which are not proper to him, but common in some cases to the fraternity, yet there is an office-authority upon them, which is not upon the like acts materially done by others. Ex. gr. Any brother may and ought to exhort and rebuke,