A93091:849
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. If the Pastor derive all his authority from the Church, when the Church hath set him aside, what right hath he to administer among that people?
Answ. True, but we say he derives all his authority from Christ, by the Church indeed, applying that office to him, to which the authority is annexed by the institution of Christ, hence being the Minister of Christ unto them, if they without Christ depose him, they hinder the exercise of his Office, but his right remains.
Answ. True, but we say he derives all his authority from Christ, by the Church indeed, applying that office to him, to which the authority is annexed by the institution of Christ, hence being the Minister of Christ unto them, if they without Christ depose him, they hinder the exercise of his Office, but his right remaines.
Reply. As they give right to an unworthy man to minister amongst them, if they call him unjustly, so they take right from the worthy, if they unjustly depose him.
Reply. As they give right to an unworthy man to minister amongst them, if they cal him unjustly, so they take right from the worthy, if they unjustly depose him.