A93091:97
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. Third Advert. We have not called you at this time to witness for, or against the corruptions of the Common-prayer-book, this you fall upon by straining the sense of our demands.
Reply. Third Advert. We have not called you at this time to witnesse for, or against the corruptions of the Common-prayer-book, this you fall upon by straining the sense of our demands.
Answ. We have spoken to this before, and we think whatsoever your intent and desire was, yet the nature of the thing, and the case it self gave us a just call to testify against it, especially seeing the corruptions then increased in England, and the impositions were more rigid and violent.
Answ. Wee have spoken to this before, and we thinke whatsoever your intent and desire was, yet the nature of the thing, and the case it selfe gave us a just call to testifie against it, especially seeing the corruptions then increased in England, and the impositions were more rigid and violent.
Reply. The reasons you bring against the Communion-book, we cannot approve them all; the exceptions against it we know, but to esteem the whole for some corruptions found therein a Monument of Idolatry, that we have not learned.
Reply. The reasons you bring against the Communion-booke, wee cannot approve them all; the exceptions against it wee know, but to esteem the whole for some corruptions found therein a Monument of Idolatry, that we have not learned.