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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.
1. Such as be not called in every point according to your platform, or at least whose calling is in any respect maimed or defective, though they be godly, learned, painful, every way fit, set apart by authority, and approved by the Church. If Antichristian Teachers be taken in this sense, true Believers living in societies with them are bound to hear the Word, and partake in the Sacraments, because they be the ordinances of the Lord Jesus, who is present, knocking at the door of the heart, and will come in and sup with them that open unto him. 1Look what reasons soever can be alleged to prove that Christians ought to join together in holy communion, the same will strongly convince, that ordinarily, or occasionally we must hold society with such Ministers in the ordinances of piety and godliness. And if this Ministry be Antichristian, divers, if not most worthy Martyrs of Jesus Christ, that have withstood Antichrist unto blood, have stood under some ordinances, in their first original, Antichristian, or of men in some respects, which ⟨p. 42⟩did not overthrow, though it might be some blemish unto their Ministry.
1. Such as be not called in every point according to your platforme, or at least whose calling is in any respect maymed or defective, though they be godly, learned, painfull, every way fit, set apart by authority, and approved by the Church. If Antichristian Teachers be taken in this sense, true Beleevers living in societies with them are bound to heare the Word, and partake in the Sacraments, because they be the ordinances of the Lord Jesus, who is present, knocking at the doore of the heart, and will come in and sup with them that open unto him. 1Look what reasons soever can be alledged to prove that Christians ought to joyne together in holy communion, the same will strongly convince, that ordinarily, or occasionally we must hold societie with such Ministers in the ordinances of piety and godlinesse. And if this Ministerie be Antichristian, divers, if not most worthy Martyrs of Jesus Christ, that have withstood Antichrist unto blood, have stood under some ordinances, in their first originall, Antichristian, or of men in some respects, which ⟨p. 42⟩