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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.
As for the Assumption, It is true, the Ministers of the Church of England are not ordained by the particular Congregations, where they administer, nor is it necessary to a true and entire calling, that it should be so. That they be not approved of the particular society, is false in many of them: for they are chosen by their consent, to be their Ministers, though not absolutely to the Ministry it self. And in case they be not so called, it is a maim and defect, 1which should be reformed, whether it ⟨p. 39⟩be through the ignorance of the people, or the Laws of the Kingdom, or the pride and covetousness of them that thrust themselves into that calling, or neglect of Patrons, or what else soever: But this maim doth not make a nullity of their calling, nor the Word and Sacraments dispensed by them to be ineffectual. For in every Church where the doctrine of salvation is soundly and entirely preached and professed, the calling of the Ministry is for substance true and lawful. The Nonconformists therefore in reproving the abuses of the Ministry and yet holding communion with the Church of England in the ordinances of worship, 2do walk according to their own Principles, the doctrine and practice of the Churches of God in all ages, and direction of the holy Scriptures.
As for the Assumption, It is true, the Ministers of the Church of England are not ordained by the particular Congregations, where they administer, nor is it necessarie to a true and entire calling, that it should be so. That they be not approved of the particular society, is false in many of them: for they are chosen by their consent, to be their Ministers, though not absolutely to the Ministerie it selfe. And in case they be not so called, it is a maime and defect, 1which should be reformed, whether it ⟨p. 39⟩be through the ignorance of the people, or the Lawes of the Kingdome, or the pride and covetousnesse of them that thrust themselves into that calling, or neglect of Patrons, or what else soever: But this maime doth not make a nullitie of their calling, nor the Word and Sacraments dispensed by them to be ineffectuall. For in every Church where the doctrine of salvation is soundly and intirely preached and professed, the calling of the Ministerie is for substance true and lawfull. The Nonconformists therefore in reproving the abuses of the Ministerie and yet holding communion with the Church of England in the ordinances of worship,