A93091:798
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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Now this profession of their faith was either by reciting the Creed in an eminent place before all the people, and that praeclarâ •iduciâ, with full affiance, as he observes out of Clement and Augustine, or else respondendo interroganti Sacerdoti per singula in subsidium forte pudoris aut memoriae, i. e. By answering to the Minister propounding questions, concerning their faith for help of their bashfulness, or want of memory.
Now this profession of their faith was either by reciting the Creed in an eminent place before all the people, and that praeclarâ •iduciâ, with full affiance, as hee observes out of Clement and Augustine, or else respondendo interroganti Sacerdoti per singula in subsidium forte pudoris aut memoriae, i. e. By answering to the Minister propounding questions, concerning their faith for helpe of their bashfulnesse, or want of memory.
Also Beza in his Epist. 14. Commending much the severity and zeal of former Pastors and Churches in this kind, and bemoaning the negligence of such as followed, from whence he saith it is, that the Church without a miracle could not rise out of its filth, he concludes thus, Itaque frustra disputabitur tum voce tum scriptis, nisi conversione cordium & [Greek or Hebrew] initium instaurationis sumatur.
Also Beza in his Epist. 14. Commending much the severity and zeale of former Pastors and Churches in this kind, and bemoaning the negligence of such as followed, from whence hee saith it is, that the Church without a miracle could not rise out of its filth, he concludes thus, Itaque frustra disputabitur tum voce tum scriptis, nisi conversione cordium & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 initium instaurationis sumatur.