A30189:126
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.
Out of Master Brightman, 1you make a large discourse of the base and shameful beggarliness of the Clergy; as that the ⟨p. 33⟩Curates are both in very deed, and in all mens account, a company of beggarly fellows, and those that by means of their more full purses, walk more lustily, they run up and down, bribe, impudently, importunately beg, and flatter, 2to compass Ecclesiastical promotions, &c. But you tell us not, how he doth immediately after, in many words, and with strong reasons, consonant to the Non-conformists Principles, disprove and censure your Separation, as wicked and ungodly, which because you omit, I will present unto the Reader. Sed nunquidergo (saith he) destituti sumus ab omni bono? nequaquam; sed gemino adhuc fruimur electis salutary: quorum primum est, introitus Christi ad •os qui aperiunt, Secundum suavissimum, eorundem apud Christum accubatio. Illud est dulcissimum solatium recipiendi Christum, quod percipiunt Sancti, quoties ad verbum praedicatum aperiri corda per fidem opera Spiritus sentiunt. Tunc enim ingreditur & nobiscum caenat, 3impertiendo seipsum benignissimè & jucundissime; quemadmodum quidem Zachaeum cupientem illum videre, & in Sycomorum ascendentem descendere jussit, & sibi parare apud se hospitium. Luk. 19.5, &c. Nec [Greek or Hebrew] caenat, qui sic amplectentibus eum hoc iis tribuit, ut filii Dei fiant. Joh, 1.12. Ille vicissim nos excipit, ut un• cum eo caenemus, quoties integris animis accedimus ad Sacramentum caenae. In qua perfidem nos carne sanguineque suo pascit, lautissimis deliciis, supra omne quod vel dici vel cogitari potest. Quo sensu dictum est apud Lucam, cap. 13.29. Tunc venient ab Oriente & Occidente & Borea & Austro, & discumbent in regno Dei, i. e. homines ex omnibus oris ad Evangelium confluent, amplectentur doctrinam regni, veréque Christi participes fient, cujus pignora capient, Panem & Vinum, discumbentes ad ejus mensam in c•lebrandâ Sacrâ caenâ. Loquitur enim de vocatione Gentium, qu rum fidem & ascensionem in totam veritatem per unm sacramentalem actionem designat. Hos jam convivas Christus vocaret, cum interin, Judaei, de quibus agitur in illâ parabola, prorsus a ratione salutis abhorrerent, uti factam jam vidimus per multa secula: Quo pertinet etiam illud, quod ibidem afferunt exclusi Judaei, postulantes