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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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Answ. The ground of this Position being about the Nature of a Ministers Office; Whether it consist in his Office, relation to the flock of a particular Church: the former part of our answer was not in vain, nor the grounds impertinent, and we accept your grant of it, That a Minister justly rejected by his Church is no longer a Minister: then we infer that there is no indelible character in the Office, but that his Ministry stands in relation to a particular flock, not to the Catholic Church, for then a particular Church could not dissolve his Office, and therefore it will follow, that (if he be found worthy after) upon repentance to be called to another Church, he must be ⟨p. 20⟩new elected and ordained to his Office, being no Minister upon his just deposing.
Answ. The ground of this Position being about the Nature of a Ministers Office; Whether it consist in his Office, relation to the flocke of a particular Church: the former part of our answer was not in vaine, nor the grounds impertinent, and wee accept your grant of it, That a Minister justly rejected by his Church is no longer a Minister: then wee inferre that there is no indelible character in the Office, but that his Ministery stands in relation to a particular flocke, not to the Catholike Church, for then a particular Church could not dissolve his Office, and therefore it will follow, that (if hee bee found worthy after) upon repentance to bee called to another Church, hee must bee ⟨p. 20⟩new elected and ordained to his Office, being no Minister upon his just deposing.
Reply. But we will examine your conclusions upon which you build the sentence which you pass against them; first it is certain, &c.
Reply. But wee will examine your conclusions upon which you build the sentence which you passe against them; first it is certaine, &c.