A02990:231
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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If the sin of him with whom I communicate be manifest and known,1 the ordinance of God is corrupted by it one way or other. And if I be ⟨p. 171⟩defiled with all known corruption whatsoever, it is not material to the point in hand how those corruptions differ in their specific nature. The question is, Whether all presence at the ordinances of God in some respect corruptly or disorderly administered, contract guilt in him that is only present in obedience to Gods commandment, and hath no calling from God to testify peculiar or special dislike. It may be of some use here to show what corruptions be fundamental and what not, what pernicious to be tolerated and what not, when a man hath a calling to testify against abuses and when not: But to speak of the specific difference betwixt abuses of the same kind or degree, is quite wide of the mark. This will easily be yielded, because communion in the ordinances of worship is as well denied when wicked men are admitted to the sacrament as when it is administered in a devised or stinted Liturgy, as it is called.
If the sinne of him with whom I communicate be manifest and known,1 the ordinance of God is corrupted by it one way or other. And if I be ⟨p. 171⟩defiled with all known corruption whatsoever, it is not materiall to the point in hand how those corruptions differ in their specificall nature. The question is, Whether all presence at the ordinances of God in some respect corruptly or disorderly administred, contract guilt in him that is onely present in obedience to Gods commandment, and hath no calling from God to testifie peculiar or speciall dislike. It may be of some use here to shew what corruptions be fundamentall and what not, what pernicious to be tolerated and what not, when a man hath a calling to testifie against abuses and when not: But to speak of the specificall difference betwixt abuses of the same kind or degree, is quite wide of the mark. This will easily be yielded, because communion in the ordinances of worship is as well denied when wicked men are admitted to the sacrament as when it is administred in a devised or stinted Liturgie, as it is called.