A30189:128
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.
Nec igitur nobis in iis acquiescendum est, nec iis. a nobis propter aliquos naevos deficiendum. Quamobrem redite ad unitatem Ecclesiae, quae vos genuit & aluit. Si fugiatis hunc Christum, qui cum electis in nostris caetibus caenat, ac eos vicissim excipit, profectò nusquam invenietis. Interim cogitemus etiam nos, quantum nobis ipsis malum accersimus, qui mordicùs retinendo superstitions nostras, fratres in tantum periculum coniicimus. Certe si quid momenti habet, quod olim confirmavit ipsa veritas, praestaret hujusmodi hominibus suspensa mola asinaria in collis, demergi in profundo maris. Matth. 18.6. Utrisque sanitatem mentis precor.
Nec igitur nobis in iis acquiescendum est, nec iis. a nobis propter aliquos naevos deficiendum. Quamobrem redite ad unitatem Ecclesiae, quae vos genuit & aluit. Si fugiatis hunc Christum, qui cum electis in nostris caetibus caenat, ac eos vicissim excipit, profectò nusquam invenietis. Interim cogitemus etiam nos, quantum nobis ipsis malum accersimus, qui mordicùs retinendo superstitiones nostras, fratres in tantum periculum coniicimus. Certe si quid momenti habet, quod olim confirmavit ipsa veritas, praestaret hujusmodi hominibus suspensa mola asinaria in collis, demergi in profundo maris. Matth. 18.6. Vtrisque sanitatem mentis precor.
Here we see the Non-conformists agreeable to the Scripture, sound reason, the consent of all Antiquity, and their own Principles do plainly distinguish betwixt a maim or defect in the calling of a Minister, and no calling at all: that it is great ignorance, or (to speak most favourably▪) inconsiderateness to charge them, as if they went against their own Principles, in holding Communion with the Churches of England in the ordinances of Gods worship.
Here wee see the Non-conformists agreeable to the Scripture, sound reason, the consent of all Antiquitie, and their own Principles doe plainely distinguish betwixt a maime or defect in the calling of a Minister, and no calling at all: that it is great ignorance, or (to speak most favourably) inconsideratenesse to charge them, as if they went against their own Principles, in holding Communion with the Churches of England in the ordinances of Gods worship.