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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 not for them that earnestly oppose all humane inventions to ward off a blow by humane devises. 1When God commandeth my presence at his ordinance, why should the corruption foreknown in the manner of administration,2 without my consent or approbation, any more defile, then that which falleth out unexpected? Or if it should, nothing can be alleged more impertinently. For the corruptions of the Pharisees in perverting the law were ordinary and common, well known to all men, and so reproved by our Saviour as a thing notorious. And the like may be said of the disorders in the churches of Corinth, and Rome: for if the knowledge thereof came to the Apostle absent and at that time in prison, by the information of the brethren, of necessity it must be known to the members of the churches. The faithful therefore when they joined in the ordinances of worship with these assemblies, neither did nor could pretend ignorance of these things.
It is not for them that earnestly oppose all humane inventions to ward off a blow by humane devises. 1When God commandeth my presence at his ordinance, why should the corruption foreknown in the manner of administration,2 without my consent or approbation, any more defile, then that which falleth out unexpected? Or if it should, nothing can be alledged more impertinently. For the corruptions of the Pharisees in perverting the law were ordinary and common, well known to all men, and so reproved by our Saviour as a thing notorious. And the like may be said of the disorders in the churches of Corinth, and Rome: for if the knowledge thereof came to the Apostle absent and at that time in prison, by the information of the brethren, of necessitie it must be known to the members of the churches. The faithfull therefore when they joyned in the ordinances of worship with these assemblies, neither did nor could pretend ignorance of these things.
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