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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 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.
3 The Officers of the Church, (who are first privately to examine them) and prepare them for admission) are to show the Church the rule on which the Church is to receive them, and themselves are ready to admit them. Act. 10. 37. Can any forbid water, &c.
3 The Officers of the Church, (who are first privately to examine them) and prepare them for admission) are to shew the Church the rule on which the Church is to receive them, and themselves are ready to admit them. Act. 10. 37. Can any forbid water, &c.
This rule was best seen by that public profession before the whole Church, and if no just exception be made (as one should be without conviction) they are to be admitted by the Officers with the consent of the members hereunto, for if public profession is needful at least before the Church, though not the world alway (as Didoclavius observes) to the entrance into the Covenant and Church by baptism; we see no reason, but persons formerly baptized, and entering a new into the Church, but they should openly profess their faith again: the visible Church being built upon this rock,