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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. What is said to the first is spoken before, and we will not repeat things in vain.
Answ. What is said to the first is spoken before, and we will not repeat things in vaine.
Reply. Secondly, The power of feeding, which the Minister hath, is neither confined to one society only, nor nextly derived to him from Christ by the Church. The Office and authority of a Pastor is immediately from Christ, the deputation of the person which Christ hath designed is from the Church ministerially, but neither virtually nor formally.
Reply. Secondly, The power of feeding, which the Minister hath, is neither confined to one society onely, nor nextly derived to him from Christ by the Church. The Office and authority of a Pastour is immediately from Christ, the deputation of the person which Christ hath designed is from the Church ministerially, but neither vertually nor formally.
Answ. These things about the call of a Minister by the Church were also spoken to before, when we spake of the power of the Keys, and the first subject thereof, and therefore the assertion being granted, these things might well be spared, but what we find here more then in the other place, we shall consider.
Answ. These things about the call of a Minister by the Church were also spoken to before, when wee spake of the power of the Keys, and the first subject thereof, and therefore the assertion being granted, these things might well be spared, but what we finde here more then in the other place, we shall consider.