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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. We grant, our Church-Covenant neither requires every business to come to public counsel, nor perpetual residence in one place: neither is it so held by us in judgement or practise.
Answ. We grant, our Church-Covenant neither requires every businesse to come to publike counsell, nor perpetuall residence in one place: neither is it so held by us in judgement or practise.
Reply. You say you bind your selves to no new duties, but in the word of truth, it is not required neither directly nor by consequence, that no member of a Church should remove or occasionally be absent from his habitation before he have acquainted the Church whither he goeth, and on what occasions, &c.
Reply. You say you bind your selves to no new duties, but in the word of truth, it is not required neither directly nor by consequence, that no member of a Church should remove or occasionally bee absent from his habitation before hee have acquainted the Church whither he goeth, and on what occasions, &c.
Answ. It cannot but grieve us to see how the Replyer still not content to take all things in the harshest sense, but will also wind in other matters into his discourse, which may make our practise seem far more rigid then it is. First, he urges us as if we brought all cases of remove and the occasions thereof, as marriages, ⟨p. 181⟩&c. to the counsel of the whole Church. Secondly, he would by consequence infer the like of occasional absence, and now he weaves in that also, as if it were practised by us to require men to acquaint the Church with the place whither they go, and the occasions of their occasional absence, which is far from us.