A93091:680
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 Fraternal power (in public Church acts) is a joint power of liberty or privilege (in some sense, & in some cases) to open, & shut; which power is not in any one or more severally; but in the whole jointly, for as they have power to combine, and so to receive others into the communion, so by like reason to shut out offenders from their communion; but thus they do fraternally, not officially: and as they have such a power of election of Officers to them, so they have also a fraternal power (due order being attended) to shut them out (when there is just cause) according to the common received rule, Cujus est instituere, ejusdem est & destituere.
2 Fraternall power (in publike Church acts) is a joynt power of liberty or priviledge (in some sense, & in some cases) to open, & shut; which power is not in any one or more severally; but in the whole joyntly, for as they have power to combine, and so to receive others into the communion, so by like reason to shut out offenders from their communion; but thus they do fraternally, not officially: and as they have such a power of election of Officers to them, so they have also a fraternall power (due order being attended) to shut them out (when there is just cause) according to the common received rule, Cujus est instituere, ejusdem est & destituere.
These things which might be more fully explained and confirmed, we have only briefly set down both to wash off the blot of popular Government from the ways of Christ, as if all authority were taken from the Ministers, or nothing left them but to dispense the seals, and in all other things to sit merely as a moderator in the Churches of Christ, which we utterly disclaim.
These things which might bee more fully explained and confirmed, wee have onely briefly set downe both to wash off the blot of popular Government from the wayes of Christ, as if all authority were taken from the Ministers, or nothing left them but to dispense the seales, and in all other things to sit meerely as a moderator in the Churches of Christ, which wee utterly disclaime.