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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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Reply. The Steward is appointed of the Master of the family alone, and hath all his authority from him. Every Ambassador in the cause of his Embassage doth immediately depend upon him from whom he is sent: but if the function, order and authority of Pastors and Teachers be immediately from Christ, then it is not received from the Church as the immediate receptacle.
Reply. The Steward is appointed of the Master of the family alone, and hath all his authority from him. Every Embassador in the cause of his Embassage doth immediately depend upon him from whom he is sent: but if the function, order and authority of Pastors and Teachers bee immediately from Christ, then it is not received from the Church as the immediate receptacle.
Answ. Answ. First, though Pastors in respect of the exercise of their function dispense the Word and other Mysteries of Christ as from him immediately, and so are fitly compared to Ambassadors and Stewards, yet in the call of the one and other to that work there is a plain dissimilitude, the one being called Mediately, the other Immediately by their Masters, and therefore in this case it proves nothing.
Answ. Answ. First, though Pastors in respect of the exercise of their function dispense the Word and other Mysteries of Christ as from him immediately, and so are fitly compared to Embassadors and Stewards, yet in the call of the one and other to that work there is a plaine dissimilitude, the one being called Mediately, the other Immediately by their Masters, and therefore in this case it proves nothing.
What doth this argument conclude? if only that the function and order is not from the Church as the first subject, we readily grant it; if the application of the office to such a person, (so far as may be done by an outward call) it follows not at all, for the function and office may be from Christ, and the application thereof by the Church.