A30189:16
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
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The other, expressing his advancing beyond the wonted limits of a Nonconformist towards the cause and course of separation.
The other, expressing his advancing beyond the wonted limets of a Nonconformist towards the cause and course of separation.
Two things are pretended to confirm the former. 1. A passage in the Preface of his Book called, A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation, &c. pag. 3. his words are these. Many are the objections which are made against set forms of Prayer, and particularly against our book of Common Prayer; All which I have endeavoured to answer severally, not because they are of so great weight; but because I desired fully to satisfy every doubt, &c. Secondly, that in the whole frame of the same book he speaks more covertly and coldly against the corruptions of our Church than became a man who continued steadfast in the ways of Nonconformity.
Two things are pretended to confirme the former. 1. A passage in the Preface of his Book called, A friendly tryall of the grounds tending to separation, &c. pag. 3. his words are these. Many are the objections which are made against set formes of Prayer, and particularly against our booke of Common Prayer; All which I have endeavoured to answer severally, not because they are of so great weight; but because I desired fully to satisfie every doubt, &c. Secondly, that in the whole frame of the same booke he speakes more covertly and coldly against the corruptions of our Church than became a man who continued stedfast in the wayes of Nonconformity.
For Answer whereunto, we affirm in the General, That upon our knowledge he lived and dyed a strict forbearer and firm opposer of all such corruptions as the Nonconformists (heretofore so usually called) had commonly by their public writings disallowed. Nor have