A93091:837
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. Answ. What then becomes of the Church when the Minister is dead?
Reply. The true Church hath continued by the blessing of God where the election of Ministers hath been given away by the people or taken from them.
Reply. The true Church hath continued by the blessing of God where the election of Ministers hath beene given away by the people or taken from them.
Answ. True; but it hath been continued by the after consent, and subjection of the people to their Ministers chosen by others, else they must needs have broken a pieces and dissolved the Church, or taken upon them to choose others to themselves, which still shows that the essence of the call is in the people. What is said of the disorders of Ancient Churches in elections, we pass over as nothing to this purpose. That the Ministry might be lawful for substance, where there were many defects in the manner of the call we grant, the Church at length consenting to submit thereto, in whom the true right is placed by Christ: and therefore we pass over what follows to that purpose, though we might object against some passages in the discourse.
Answ. True; but it hath been continued by the after consent, and subjection of the people to their Ministers chosen by others, else they must needs have broken a pieces and dissolved the Church, or taken upon them to choose others to themselves, which still shewes that the essence of the call is in the people. What is said of the disorders of Ancient Churches in elections, we passe over as nothing to this purpose. That the Ministery might bee lawfull for substance, where there were many defects in the manner of the call we grant, the Church at length consenting to submit thereto, in whom the true right is placed by Christ: and therefore we passe over what followes to that purpose, though wee might object against some passages in the discourse.