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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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No church in the world now hath that absolute promise of the Lords visible presence which the church then had till the coming of Christ.1 It was simply necessary,2 that Messiah should be born in the true church, wherein he might have communion and fulfil the law. The Lord did afford the Jews, even in their deepest apostasy, some or other visible signs of his presence, and those extraordinary when ordinary failed; thereby still declaring himself to remember his promise. There was that only visible church upon the face of the earth, tied to one temple, altar, sacrifice, priest hood, in one place;3 and no man could absolutely separate from that church but he must separate from the visible presence and from all solemn ⟨p. 208⟩worship of God. Moreover, the Jewish church had not that distinct ecclesiastical ordinance of excommunication which we now have; but that the obstinate or presumptuous offender was by bodily death to be cut off from the Lords people; the same persons, namely the whole nation, being both church and common-wealth according to that special dispensation.
No church in the world now hath that absolute promise of the Lords visible presence which the church then had till the coming of Christ.1 It was simply necessary,2 that Messiah should be born in the true church, wherein he might have communion and fulfill the law. The Lord did afford the Jews, even in their deepest apostasie, some or other visible signes of his presence, and those extraordinary when ordinary failed; thereby still declaring himself to remember his promise. There was that onely visible church upon the face of the earth, tyed to one temple, altar, sacrifice, priest hood, in one place;3 and no man could absolutely separate from that church but he must separate from the visible presence and from all solemn