A02990:264
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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A man is not only bound in his place to do his best for the reclaiming of his brother,1 but to see his place be such as wherein he may orderly discharge ⟨p. 206⟩the duties of admonition:2 otherwise both his practice and place are unlawful. This is not sufficient, that we labour by the best means to have manifest evils amended, except our places be such, and we in such churches, as wherein we may use the ordinary means Christ hath left for the amendment of things:3 otherwise our places and standings themselves are unwarrantable and must be forsaken.
A man is not onely bound in his place to do his best for the reclaiming of his brother,1 but to see his place be such as wherein he may orderly discharge ⟨p. 206⟩the duties of admonition:2 otherwise both his practice and place are unlawfull. This is not sufficient, that we labour by the best means to have manifest evils amended, except our places be such, and we in such churches, as wherein we may use the ordinary means Christ hath left for the amendment of things:3 otherwise our places and standings themselves are unwarrantable and must be forsaken.
- 1Object. 3.
- 2Robins. Against Bern. pag. 246.
- 3Idem, pag. 16.