A93091:795
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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And for the Eunuch, Philip requiring his profession of faith▪ If thou believest with all thy heart, looked for a sound▪ work of grace, and though it was delivered in those words which are the Fundamental truth, That Jesus is the Son of God, yet it includes true faith in him for salvation: as we see our Saviour Christ takes that confession of Peter for true faith, Flesh and •lood have not revealed this to thee, but my Father: and promised ⟨p. 198⟩to build the Church on this rock, Matth. 16. Yea it includes subjection unto him as the Son of God, the Prophet and King of his Church, and this is no rare, but a common thing in the New Testament, by one fundamental truth, believed and confessed, to include true faith and profession of the whole truth that suites with that foundation, as Rom. 10. 9. so expounded, Verse 10, 11. as being more then historical faith, so 1 John 4. 1, 2. and 5. 1.
And for the Eunuch, Philip requiring his profession of faith▪ If thou beleevest with all thy heart, looked for a sound▪ worke of grace, and though it was delivered in those words which are the Fundamentall truth, That Jesus is the Sonne of God, yet it includes true faith in him for salvation: as we see our Saviour Christ takes that confession of Peter for true faith, Flesh and •lood have not revealed this to thee, but my Father: and promised ⟨p. 198⟩to build the Church on this rocke, Matth. 16. Yea it includes subjection unto him as the Sonne of God, the Prophet and King of his Church, and this is no rare, but a common thing in the New Testament, by one fundamentall truth, beleeved and confessed, to include true faith and profession of the whole truth that suites with that foundation, as