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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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2 The Apostles charge to Timothy, 2 Tim. 3. 5. From such as have a form of godliness and deny the power of it, turn away; if bare profession were sufficient, why should Timothy turn from them? (but rather receive them who had a form of profession.) And if it was in his power to avoid them, why should he not reject them, and that not only from private but Church communion also, supposing them such as not o neigh had a form, but might be by a rule convinced thereof?
2 The Apostles charge to Timothy, 2 Tim. 3. 5. From such as have a forme of godlinesse and deny the power of it, turne away; if bare profession were sufficient, why should Timothy turne from them? (but rather receive them who had a forme of profession.) And if it was in his power to avoyd them, why should he not reject them, and that not onely from private but Church communion also, supposing them such as not o ney had a forme, but might be by a rule convinced thereof?
3 Lying and apparent untruth cannot make a man fit matter1 for a Church, and therefore cannot be a ground for charity to rest on, that so he is: but verbal profession, which appears not to be real but false, is palpable lying, and indeed more fit to destroy the Church then to make the Church. Hence Sanctius in Zach▪ 14. 14▪ observes that the greatest enemies of the Church are such, qui eum fidem retineant sanctitatem abj•cerunt.
3 Lying and apparent untruth cannot make a man fit matter1 for a Church, and therefore cannot bee a ground for charity to rest on, that so he is: but verball profession, which appeares not to bee reall but false, is palpable lying, and indeed more fit to destroy the Church then to make the Church. Hence Sanctius in Zach 14. 14 observes that the greatest enemies of the Church are such, qui eum fidem retineant sanctitatem abjcerunt.