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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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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 abj•cerunt.
4 If bare profession of faith is a sufficient ground to receive men into the Church, then an excommunicate person cast cut in one hour should be immediately received in again, if he will but renew his general profession of faith; nay they the Indians in Maryland, who will put on and put off this profession, as their ghostly fathers the Popish Priests will bestow or withhold garments and shirts upon them; should in charity be received into the Church.