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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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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. encouraged by Barnabas and the Apostles, and as the Apostle commands, Rom. 14. 1. which although it was of fellow-members into their affections, yet the proportion holds strong for receiving comers into the Church. Joh. Ep. 3. 8, 9, 10.
Answer, 1. The faithfull 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. encouraged by Barnabas and the Apostles, and as the Apostle commands, Rom. 14. 1. which although it was of fellow-members into their affections, yet the proportion holds strong for receiving commers into the Church. Joh. Ep. 3. 8, 9, 10.
2 If they be to receive them, they must by some means know them, to be such as they may comfortably receive into their affections, a little leaven leavening the whole lump. 1 Cor. 5.
2 If they bee to receive them, they must by some meanes know them, to bee such as they may comfortably receive into their affections, a little leaven leavening the whole lumpe. 1 Cor. 5.