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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 When there is full and sufficient testimony from others of their faith and piety, although their humiliation, faith and conversation be not so well known, for we see the Church received Paul, when Barnabas had declared what God had done for him; and if it may be just to condemn another by the testimony of two faithful witnesses, it may not be unchristian to receive an other into the fold of Christ (much more readily) upon the testimony of able and faithful Christians, especially then when they be not able openly, and publicly ro speak so fully for themselves, and thus much for answer to the first question
3 When there is full and sufficient testimony from others of their faith and piety, although their humiliation, faith and conversation bee not so well knowne, for wee see the Church received Paul, when Barnabas had declared what God had done for him; and if it may bee just to condemne another by the testimony of two faithfull witnesses, it may not bee unchristian to receive an other into the fold of Christ (much more readily) upon the testimony of able and faithfull Christians, especially then when they be not able openly, and publiquely ro speake so fully for themselves, and thus much for answer to the first question
2 Question, Whether this profession is to be judged by the Church.
2 Question, Whether this profession is to bee judged by the Church.
Answer, 1. The faithful as they did at first combine into a Church, so it is their duty to receive others to themselves, as the Church did, Acts 9. 26, 27