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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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Reverend Mr. Hildersam in his treatise of the doctrine of the Lords Supper, to that question, whether the people that come to the Lords Table, be bound to make known their knowledge and spiritual estate to their Pastor. Answers thus, yes verily, for seeing, Matth. 3. 6. Acts 8. 37. God required of them, that (being of years of discretion) were to be baptized, that they should make known to the Congregation or their Minister their, faith and repentance, he doth every whit as much require this of them that are to come to the Lords Supper. Whereby we see, 1. that his judgement was that, Act. 8. and Mat. 3. the people did make known their spiritual estate to the congregation or Minister, when they professed faith and repentance: and secondly, that the same ought now so to be. Lastly, We may appeal herein to the consciences of very many godly Ministers, in our dear England, whether they groan not under the mixture of the precious with the vile, in the Ordinances of Christ, and would not gladly have it otherwise, which cannot be without such a way of admissions into the Church as we plead ⟨p. 200⟩for, or else in constituted (but corrupted) Churches, by casting out such as after admonitions appear impenitent in sin, by the severity of discipline.
Reverend Mr. Hildersam in his treatise of the doctrine of the Lords Supper, to that question, whether the people that come to the Lords Table, bee bound to make knowne their knowledge and spirituall estate to their Pastor. Answers thus, yes verily, for seeing, Matth. 3. 6. Acts 8. 37. God required of them, that (being of yeares of discretion) were to bee baptized, that they should make knowne to the Congregation or their Minister their, faith and repentance, hee doth every whit as much require this of them that are to come to the Lords Supper. Whereby we see, 1. that his judgement was that,