A93091:749
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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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.
Onely this wee may professe before the Lord and his people, that in the maine scope of our hearts and indeavours of our lives wee have sought after such a forme of worship, and frame of discipline, as we could conceive by the Word of God and the helpe of the best Reformers to bee according to the will of Christ, not allowing our selves in any evill discovered unto us, but bewayling our great defects in all.
Reply. And here we crave leave to put you in mind of what you have considered ⟨p. 188⟩