A93091:748
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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But seeing these things are now published, and the harshness thereof may do much hurt, we were pressed to clear our selves, wherein if any thing▪ reflect upon the Author or Publishers, we cannot avoid it.
But seeing these things are now published, and the harshnesse thereof may do much hurt, wee were pressed to cleare our selves, wherein if any thing▪ reflect upon the Author or Publishers, wee cannot avoyd it.
Neither do we write thus as if we would wholly justify our selves and all the particular miscarriages that happily at one time or other, in some Church or other may have happened; we have much cause to humble our selves before our God and abase our selves to the dust before men, for all the weaknesses, sins, errors and miscarriages that have been found among us, in one kind and another.
Neither doe wee write thus as if wee would wholly justifie our selves and all the particular miscarriages that happily at one time or other, in some Church or other may have happened; we have much cause to humble our selves before our God and abase our selves to the dust before men, for all the weakenesses, sinnes, errors and miscarriages that have beene found among us, in one kind and another.
Only this we may profess before the Lord and his people, that in the main scope of our hearts and endeavours of our lives we have sought after such a form of worship, and frame of discipline, as we could conceive by the Word of God and the help of the best Reformers to be according to the will of Christ, not allowing our selves in any evil discovered unto us, but bewailing our great defects in all.