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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 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.
Answ. We grant there is a parity in foro externo, but as in the call, his outward call consists in the election of the calling, and the acceptation of the called, to complete his power of administration. Now this by Christ in his Church may be destroyed in a just censure without his consent, but cannot unjustly be wrung from him without his consent, & therefore he may hold his right, till either he be justly deposed or willingly relinquish the same upon their injurious interruption of the use of his right.
Answ. We grant there is a parity in foro externo, but as in the call, his outward cal consists in the election of the calling, and the acceptation of the called, to compleat his power of administration. Now this by Christ in his Church may be destroyed in a just censure without his consent, but cannot unjustly be wrung from him without his consent, & therefore he may hold his right, till either hee be justly deposed or willingly relinquish the same upon their injurious interruption of the use of his right.
Reply. And whereas you say the Minister is for the Ministry, and the Office for the execution, and so the Pastor and the flock are relatives, and therefore, if their election gave him authority among them to feed, their casting him off hath stripped him of the same power they gave him.
Reply. And whereas you say the Minister is for the Ministery, and the Office for the execution, and so the Pastor and the flocke are relatives, and therefore, if their election gave him authority among them to feed, their casting him off hath stripped him of the same power they gave him.