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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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Answ. This answer doth not satisfy, for we cannot put off our old principles of Reason, that every instrument ministering to the principal cause doth Conferre vim ad effectum: and so far, or in what sense it gives any thing to the effect in that sense, and so far it must needs have virtually or formally the same in itself. If a Conduit convey water ministerially from the fountain to the house, it hath water in such a sense, as it doth concur to the effect: and so the Church cannot give the Keys to the Officers as an instrument of Christ, but it must be granted she received them from Christ virtually to give them to the Officer. Secondly, for the instance; if it be meant of a Steward giving the offices to such persons as his Master hath named thereunto, and he instals them into the same, the case is not alike yet, here he must have some ⟨p. 175⟩power and authority so to do so that he hath these offices virtually in his hand, but if it be his Masters will, he shall choose what persons he sees fit according to rules given him, (which is the case here) then he hath this power virtually in his hand.
Answ. This answer doth not satisfie, for wee cannot put off our old principles of Reason, that every instrument ministring to the principall cause doth Conferre vim ad effectum: and so farre, or in what sense it gives any thing to the effect in that sense, and so farre it must needs have vertually or formally the same in itselfe. If a Conduit convey water ministerially from the fountaine to the house, it hath water in such a sense, as it doth concurre to the effect: and so the Church cannot give the Keys to the Officers as an instrument of Christ, but it must be granted shee received them from Christ vertually to give them to the Officer. Secondly, for the instance; if it bee meant of a Steward giving the offices to such persons as his Master hath named thereunto, and he instals them into the same, the case is not alike yet, here hee must have some ⟨p. 175⟩power and authority so to doe so that he hath these offices vertually in his hand, but if it be his Masters will, he shall choose what persons hee sees fit according to rules given him, (which is the case here) then hee hath this power vertually in his hand.