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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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2 We grant in a safe sense there may be Communis electio, whereby a fit man is propounded by Churches or Ministers to be chosen by another people, and thus the Philadelphians might elect a fit Pastor for the Church at Antioch, (as Ignatius exhorts) with sundry like instances in the first times after the Apostles, and this we deny not may lawfully be now. But this is nothing to that electio singularis, whereby a people choose one to be their ⟨p. 204⟩Minister, of which we speak, for it is evident from the Testimony of Cyprian oft alleged, that it is in the power of the people to choose worthy Ministers, and reject the unworthy; and Ambrose thinks that he is worthily thought to be elected divino judicio, whom all the people desire▪ Ambros. lib. 10. Ep. 82.
2 Wee grant in a safe sense there may be Communis electio, whereby a fit man is propounded by Churches or Ministers to be chosen by another people, and thus the Philadelphians might elect a fit Pastor for the Church at Antioch, (as Ignatius exhots) with sundry like instances in the first times after the Apostles, and this wee deny not may lawfully bee now. But this is nothing to that electio singularis, whereby a people choose one to be their ⟨p. 204⟩Minister, of which we speake, for it is evident from the Testimony of Cyprian oft alledged, that it is in the power of the people to choose worthy Ministers, and reject the unworthy; and Ambrose thinkes that he is worthily thought to bee elected divino judicio, whom all the people desire▪ Ambros. lib. 10. Ep. 82.
It is very true, that as the times grew worse, the elections were oft disturbed, sometimes by the Clergy choosing without the people, (of which Athanasius complains) sometimes by the peoples carrying it tumultuously: sometime the Emperors interposing.