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An answer to two treatises of Mr. John Can, the leader of the English…An answer to two treatises of Mr. Iohn Can, the leader of the English…
An answer to two treatises of Mr. John Can, the leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam the former called, A necessity of separation from the Church of England, proved by the Nonconformists principles : the other, A stay against straying : wherein in opposition to M. John Robinson, he undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of hearing the ministers of the Church of England ... / by the late learned, laborious and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, John Ball.An answer to two treatises of Mr. Iohn Can, the leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam the former called, A necessitie of separation from the Church of England, proved by the Nonconformists principles : the other, A stay against straying : wherein in opposition to M. Iohn Robinson, he undertakes to prove the unlawfulnesse of hearing the ministers of the Church of England ... / by the late learned, laborious and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, John Ball.
London: printed by R.B., 1642
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.
The saving truth of God, 1and a true Ministry are essential to the true Church, consisting of all it parts, and partaker of the Ordinances of grace. Something of the se remain in every complete society, 2which hath any thing of the Church, and for substance and essence, they are true in every true and lawful complete society; But as the profession of the truth may be found in all fundamental points, though mixed with many errors: so for Truth and existence, the Ministry may be lawful, though in many particulars delinquent and deficient.
The saving truth of God, 1and a true Ministerie are essentiall to the true Church, consisting of all it parts, and partaker of the Ordinances of grace. Something of the se remaine in every complete societie, 2which hath any thing of the Church, and for substance and essence, they are true in every true and lawfull complete societie; But as the profession of the truth may be found in all fundamentall points, though mixed with many errours: so for Truth and existence, the Ministerie may be lawfull, though in many particulars delinquent and deficient.
- 1Gratian. Decret dist. 63. cap. 22, 23.
- 2Platima in vita Benedict. 2. In the Primitive Church, the people which were Laymen, chose their Pastors, and for a long time the Bishops of Rome themselves were not chosen without the consent of the Princes, &c. and the Emperors were possessed of it as their right, ever since the days of Ch•rles. Bilson. Christ. Subject. part 3. pag. 168. Sol. Jarchi. 2 Mac. 4.7, 8, 26, 27. Joseph Antiq: lib. 20. cap. 18. & l. 18. cap. 4. Ctrnel. Bertram. de pol. Judaic. cap. 18. Concil. Laed c. cap. 13. Non est permittendum turbis, &c. Jun. animadv. in Bl•. contr 5. lib. 1. ca 7, not. 16.17.Platima in vita Benedict. 2. In the Primitive Church, the people which were Laymen, chose their Pastors, and for a long time the Bishops of Rome themselves were not chosen without the consent of the Princes, &c. and the Emperors were possessed of it as their right, ever since the daies of Chrles. Bilson. Christ. Subject. part 3. pag. 168. Sol. Iarchi. 2 Mac. 4.7, 8, 26, 27. Ioseph Antiq: lib. 20. cap. 18. & l. 18. cap. 4. Ctrnel. Bertram. de pol. Iudaic. cap. 18. Concil. Laed c. cap. 13. Non est permittendum turbis, &c. Iun. animadv. in Bl. contr 5. lib. 1. ca 7, not. 16.17.