A02990:222
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulness of a stinted liturgy and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys: tending to satisfy the doubtful, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640
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The personal miscarriages of private persons are not so perilous as the evil acts of the minister whom I make my mouth to God in prayer.1 Neither do the errors of individual men tainted with corruptions, voluntarily broached in prayer or sermon, cast that defilement upon them who join together, as do the unwarrantable opinions of the church, and the ministration upon such public commandment.
The personall miscarriages of private persons are not so perillous as the evil acts of the minister whom I make my mouth to God in prayer.1 Neither do the errours of individuall men tainted with corruptions, voluntarily broched in prayer or sermon, cast that defilement upon them who joyn together, as do the unwarrantable opinions of the church, and the ministration upon such publick commandment.
- 1Object. 4.
It is a good rule in Divinity oft to be thought upon,1 That every distinction in matters of faith or religion not grounded upon or warranted by the scripture is an humane devise. For is not this to ⟨p. 166⟩add to the word of God, to lay down an opinion as from God which is not to be found in his word at all? Now to apply this to the present matter in hand, I desire to know from what scripture this distinction can be warranted, That the personal errors of the minister in his voluntary administration of the sacraments or prayer do not defile, though I do not publicly testify dislike, or absent my self; but error committed in the administration by public commandment do pollute all that be present. Reason why presence should pollute in one case more then the other none can be given.