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.Veritas nihil erubescit praeterquam abscondi,Turtul.Sua silentia amat Spiritus per quae nobis illabitur, seque insinuat cupidis non gloriae sed cognoscendae veritatis,Melanct.Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his Brethren,Deut. 33. 16.LONDON, Printed by E. Cotes for Andrew Crook, and are to be sold at the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, 1653.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.Veritas nihil erubescit praeterquam abscondi,Turtul.Sua silentia amat Spiritus per quae nobis illabitur, seque insinuat cupidis non gloriae sed cognoscendae veritatis,Melanct.Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his Brethren,Deut. 33. 16.LONDON, Printed by E. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, and are to be sold at the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, 1653.Title page of A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible…, London, 1652A 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…Thomas Shepard, 1652

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Whereas it is called a new Church-way; we little expected that Brethren studious of Reformation, who have been so exercised with imputations of novelty, would have so readily, and in the frontispiece cast the same upon us, who with them desire to walk in the first ways of our Lord Jesus Christ and his holy Apostles; but as in most substantial points of Church-order, we go along with the best reformed Churches, so we doubt not to make it good that wherein we (pressing after further Reformation) seem to differ from them; yet we build upon Scripture grounds acknowledged by many godly and Learned Reformers, in our English and other reformed Churches: which, if the Lord have in mercy given us further light, (or rather opportunity to practise) then they had, let it not be imputed to us for novelty.

WHereas it is called a new Church-way; wee little expected that Brethren studious of Reformation, who have been so exercised with imputations of novelty, would have so readily, and in the frontispice cast the same upon us, who with them desire to walk in the first wayes of our Lord Jesus Christ and his holy Apostles; but as in most substantiall points of Church-order, wee goe along with the best reformed Churches, so wee doubt not to make it good that wherein wee (pressing after further Reformation) seeme to differ from them; yet wee build upon Scripture grounds acknowledged by many godly and Learned Reformers, in our English and other reformed Churches: which, if the Lord have in mercy given us further light, (or rather opportunity to practise) then they had, let it not bee imputed to us for novelty.

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A new edition of the old Church-way of godly Reformers, in some things perhaps corrected and amended, is no new

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Concerning the Title.

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A new edition of the old Church-way of godly Reformers, in some things perhaps corrected and amended, is no new

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