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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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Lastly, by this Doctrine how shall the Church come by Officers, when she hath none to go before her in choosing for her? must she loose her right, or take whom others will choose for her, and impose upon her?
Lastly, by this Doctrine how shall the Church come by Officers, when shee hath none to goe before her in choosing for her? must shee loose her right, or take whom others will choose for her, and impose upon her?
Reply. In the primitive times, after the Apostles, one Church might elect a Pastor for another, &c.
Answ. 1 If by way of counsel one Church shall propound and advise another to choose such, (leaving them free to take or refuse) this is lawful in case, but otherwise it is a plain usurpation and we must leave Scripture rules and patterns to justify it.
Answ. 1 If by way of counsell one Church shall propound and advise another to choose such, (leaving them free to take or refuse) this is lawfull in case, but otherwise it is a plaine usurpation and we must leave Scripture rules and patterns to justifie it.