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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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Reply. The consent of the people is requisite in the election of Pastors and Teachers, we grant, the direction of the Elders going before, or along with them, Acts 1. Peter declared what an one should be taken, &c. Acts 6. Deacons were chosen by the consent of the Church, &c. but in this election the people did first choose, when most commonly the Apostles instructed the people, and went before them in the election, and they consented. Act. 14. 23. The Apostles by consent choose, &c.
Reply. The consent of the people is requisite in the election of Pastors and Teachers, we grant, the direction of the Elders going before, or along with them, Acts 1. Peter declared what an one should be taken, &c. Acts 6. Deacons were chosen by the consent of the Church, &c. but in this election the people did first choose, when most commonly the Apostles instructed the people, and went before them in the electon, and they consented. Act. 14. 23. The Apostles by consent choose, &c.
Answ. This restriction of the peoples power to an after consent, at least ordinarily, will not hold: if the evident light of Acts 6. could not be denied, and the other places were more obscure, why should not that place with its light clear the rest? but that in Act. 1. is as evident, Peter proves the need of such a choice to be made, shows it must be one that had so long conversed with Christ, to witness such things, and further he doth not lead them, there might be twenty such, but they choose two, as a preparative act to Apostleship, Vers. 23. and who were they, but such as they speak unto, viz. the Disciples, Vers. 15. whom he calls Men and Brethren, Vers. 16. so