A20920:161
Certain letters, translated into English, being first written in Latin. Two, by the reverend…Certayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend…
Certain letters, translated into English, being first written in Latin. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Junius, divinity reader at Leiden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where upon the said letters were first writtenCertayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Iunius, divinitie reader at Leyden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where vpon the said letters were first written
Amsterdam : Printed, in the year. 1602Amsterdam : Printed, in the yeare. 1602
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.
Concerning the differences (whereof you write again in your letters) which are between us and the dutch Church of this city / it needeth not that we write unto non of the particulars otherwise then as before we have done. If you do yet desire more we give you to understand that above a year since we delivered in writing the true and particular narration of the whole matter / to the ministers and whole eldership of that Church: who (if yet they have not) ma• now communicate it with you. By it also will appear / that we have done what was our duty and as brotherly as we could. If not / let the error be showed and it shall be corrected God willing. In the mean time / because we are both privately and publicly so much urged by you hereunto / we will briefly note the chief heads / wherein we differ from them / and where about we have had dealing with them / both before and since you wrote unto us.
Concerning the differences (wherof you write agayne in your letters) which are betwene vs and the dutch Church of this city / it needeth not that we wryte vnto non of the particulars otherwise then as before we have donne. If you do yet desyre more we give you to vnderstand that above a yeare synce we delyvered in wryting the true and particular narration of the whole matter / to the ministers and whole eldership of that Church: who (if yet they have not) ma• now communicate it with you. By it also will appeare / that we have donne what was our duty and as brotherly as we could. If not / let the errour be shewed and it shalbe corrected God willing. In the meane tyme / because we are both pryvatly and publyckly so much vrged by you herevnto / we will briefely note the chief heades / wherin we differ from them / and where about we have had dealing with them / both before and synce you wrote vnto vs.
They are these which follow: ⟨p. 54⟩1. The estate of the Dutch Church at Amsterdam: is so confused as the whole Church can never come together i• one: the ministers can never together with the flock sanctify the Lords ae the presence of the members of the Church cannot certainly be known: and finally no public action whether excommunication or any other can riggip be performed. Which is contrary to these Scriptures,