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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. As for the second branch of your answer we know not well your meaning; if this be your mind, that a Minister lawfully called and set over the Congregation, is to be esteemed a Minister in the usual Church, as the particular Church hath unity with, and is part of the universal or Catholic, and as a party baptized is not baptized into that Congregation only, but into all Churches, and that the Ministry is one, cujus a singulis in solidum pars tenetur, as Cyprian speaketh, and therefore though the Minister be unjustly cast eff by one Congregation, yet he is not to be esteemed as no Minister, we freely consent▪ But if your meaning be, that he is only by right a Minister of that particular Congregation, because unjustly deposed, as formerly in the execution of his Office, •ee was a Minister to them only, and to no other society whatsoever, or in what respect soever▪ your opinion is contrary to the opinion of the universal, and tends to destroy the unity of the Church, and that Communion which the Churches of God ought to have one with another.
Reply. As for the second branch of your answer we know not well your meaning; if this be your minde, that a Minister lawfully called and set over the Congregation, is to bee esteemed a Minister in the usuall Church, as the particular Church hath unity with, and is part of the universall or Catholique, and as a party baptized is not baptized into that Congregation onely, but into all Churches, and that the Ministery is one, cujus a singulis in solidum pars tenetur, as Cyprian speaketh, and therefore though the Minister be unjustly cast eff by one Congregation, yet hee is not to be esteemed as no Minister, wee freely consent▪ But if your meaning bee, that hee is onely by right a Minister of that particular Congregation, because unjustly deposed, as formerly in the execution of his Office, •ee was a Minister to them onely, and to no other society whatsoever, or in what respect soever▪ your opinion is contrary to the opinion of the universall, and tends to destroy the unity of the Church, and that Communion which the Churches of God ought to have one with another.