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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 Such a faith as is joined with evident repentance, and sorrow, and mourning for sin (although there be no experience always of such a holy life antecedently seen) for thus it was Act. 2. 37, 38. for the riches of Christs grace is such as not only to receive experienced christians into his family and house, but also the weakest and poorest (who may stand in most need of Christs Ordinances) and that as soon as ever they seem to be brought in; and therefore experience of a blameless life is not always necessary for admission into the Church: some think indeed that the Apostles received in the first converts, (Act. 2. 39.) so soon, because they had an extraordinary spirit of discerning, but if they had so: yet they did not receive them in here according to that, for they received divers hypocrites in, as Ananias and Sapphira, &c. and if all other of their acts in this chapter were exemplary, why should this only be thought to be otherwise and extraordinary?
2 Such a faith as is joyned with evident repentance, and sorrow, and mourning for sinne (although there bee no experience alwayes of such a holy life antecedently seene) for thus it was Act. 2. 37, 38. for the riches of Christs grace is such as not onely to receive experienced christians into his family and house, but also the weakest and poorest (who may stand in most need of Christs Ordinances) and that as soone as ever they seeme to bee brought in; and therefore experience of a blamelesse life is not alwayes necessary for admission into the Church: some think indeed that the Apostles received in the first converts, (Act. 2. 39.) so soone, because they had an extraordinary spirit of discerning, but if they had so: yet they did not receive them in here according to that, for they received divers hypocrites in, as Ananias and Sapphira, &c. and if all other of their acts in this chapter were exemplary, why should this onely bee thought to be otherwise and extraordinary?