A02990:258
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 a brother be a fornicator, 1the Apostle exhorteth us not to eat with him: 2Which place doth not only forbid private and voluntary familiarity but religious also,3 and that both public and private. Neither is there any reason, whether we respect the glory of God, or our own safety, or the avoiding of offence in others, or the shaming of the parties, why we should avoid civil communion with any and yet hold religious communion with them. Neither is voluntary society to be opposed to religious: for no society is so voluntary as that which is religious
If a brother be a fornicatour, 1the Apostle exhorteth us not to eat with him: 2Which place doth not onely forbid private and voluntary familiarity but religious also,3 and that both publick and private. Neither is there any reason, whether we respect the glory of God, or our own safety, or the avoiding of offense in others, or the shaming of the parties, why we should avoid civil cōmunion with any and yet hold religious communion with them. Neither is voluntary society to be opposed to religious: for no society is so voluntary as that which is religious
- 1Object. 1.
- 21. Cor. 5. 11.
- 3Robins. Against Bern. pag. 258.