A02990:224
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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It is one thing to join with men in sin,1 another to join with them necessarily in the worship of God, though for the manner of administration something be done amiss. If I profess not dislike of what I judge amiss, having no calling thereunto, my joining in prayer is no appearance of evil to a right-discerning eye, because I am necessarily called there to attend upon the Lord in his holy ordinances. Necessary attendance upon his master excuseth the servants presence in many companies where he seeth and heareth much evil which he cannot amend nor reprove: and shall not necessary attendance upon Jesus Christ justly and truly excuse the faithful? To say nothing, that this exception is cross to the former; and if these exceptions be laid together, we shall find nothing but going backward and forward, one denying what the other affirmeth.
It is one thing to joyn with men in sin,1 another to joyn with them necessarily in the worship of God, though for the manner of administration something be done amisse. If I professe not dislike of what I judge amisse, having no calling thereunto, my joyning in prayer is no appearance of evil to a right-discerning eye, because I am necessarily called there to attend upon the Lord in his holy ordinances. Necessary attendance upon his master excuseth the servants presence in many companies where he seeth and heareth much evil which he cannot amend nor reprove: and shall not necessary attendance upon Jesus Christ justly and truly excuse the faithfull? To say nothing, that this exception is crosse to the former; and if these exceptions be laid together, we shall find nothing but going backward and forward, one denying what the other affirmeth.