A02990:261
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump: 1One scandalous sinner not reclaimed or cast out polluteth the whole congregation:2 And men must not be blamed if they dare not dip in their meal,3 lest they be soured with their leaven.
A little leaven leaveneth the vvhole lump: 1One scandalous sinner not reclaimed or cast out polluteth the whole congregation:2 And men must not be blamed if they dare not dip in their meal,3 lest they be sowred with their leaven.
- 1Object. 2.
- 21. Cor. 5. 6.
- 3Robins. Against Bern. pag. 16.
The comparison of the leaven used by the Apostle is to be understood in likeness of nature,1 not in their equality of effecting:2 For leaven soureth naturally, and cannot but sour the meal: the godly may be hurt by the wicked, but it is not necessary. Therefore every member must look warily to himself, and do his endeavour to reclaim other, or that he may be cast out, if notorious and incorrigible, but not withdraw himself