A02990:270
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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In the church of Corinth there were divisions,1 sects,2 emulations, contentions, and quarrels, and going to law one with another for every trifle,3 and that under the infidels; Pauls name and credit was despitefully called in question there,4 whom they should have honoured as a father;5 the resurrection of the dead (which is the life of Christianity) was denied;6 that wickedness was winked at there which is execrable to the very heathen;7 the Lords supper was horribly profaned,8 in that some came to it drunken; there was fornication and such like sins not repented of; things indifferent were used with manifest offence, and idolatry committed in eating at the tables of idols meats sacrificed to devils: Notwithstanding all which abuses that society is called and was the church of God, 9and the faithful did and might communicate with others without pollution. The Galatians had so far adulterated the Gospel of Christ that the Apostle telleth them they were removed to another Gospel, pronounceth that they were bewitched,10 and if they still persisted to join circumcision and the works ⟨p. 212⟩of the law with Christ, they were fallen from grace,11 and Christ could not profit them: and yet they are called churches of Galatia. Ephesus was extremely decayed in her first love;