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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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CHAP. II.
Qu. 1. That a stinted Form of Prayer and set Liturgy i• unlawful.
Qu. 1. That a stinted Forme of Prayer and set Liturgie i• unlawfull.
Reply. This Position cannot bear that meaning which you give it, if you take it according to our minds, and the plain construction of the words. We never questioned why you made not use of a Liturgy, &c.
Reply. THis Position cannot beare that meaning which you give it, if you take it according to our minds, and the plaine construction of the words. We never questioned why you made not use of a Liturgie, &c.
Answ. Let our Answer be viewed, and it will appear that we had just cause to premise those distinctions of Forms of Prayer into private and public; and public into such as are imposed by others, or composed and used by Ministers themselves before their Sermons; otherwise we must have involved such in the Position, as we do not condemn. Now if your general thesis justly admit such limitation to public imposed Forms, where shall we find any set stinted imposed Liturgies, but in Churches of the Papacy or Prelacy? no Reformed Churches stinting or imposing their Forms of Prayer, but leaving Ministers and people at much liberty. Only the English Liturgy therefore is such, according to the plain construction of the words.