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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. 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.
Answ. The Answer calls it not a Monument of Idolatry for some corruptions only found in it, though the corruptions in matter and manner, be objected as the first reason why we used it not; but being never commanded of God, greatly abused unto Idolatry and superstition, and o• no necessary use, the same that was in Popery for substance, which are the usual arguments for abolishing Images, Ceremonies, and all Monuments of Idolatry; and we marvel how any could pass over these things in the Answer which might evince it to be a ⟨p. 37⟩Monument of Idolatry, as the argument of the Abridgement to which we referred, doth prove.
Answ. The Answer calls it not a Monument of Idolatry for some corruptions onely found in it, though the corruptions in matter and manner, bee objected as the first reason why wee used it not; but being never commanded of God, greatly abused unto Idolatry and superstition, and o• no necessary use, the same that was in Popery for substance, which are the usuall arguments for abolishing Images, Ceremonies, and all Monuments of Idolatry; and wee marvaile how any could passe over these things in the Answer which might evince it to bee a ⟨p. 37⟩Monument of Idolatry, as the argument of the Abridgement to which we referred, doth prove.