A30189:163
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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But if the way or manner of Worship be stretched to the circumstances of time, place, order, phrase of speech, and such like, not determined by God in particular, but left to the liberty of Christians, so the general rules of Scripture be observed, then the proposition is not true, the Scriptures do not confirm it, it was never acknowledged by Divines of any sort or sect that have appeared to the world. For what is in general only Divine, but in particular left without determination from God, that in it self is indifferent and variable: of which sort were the hours of the morning and evening sacrifice, their Synagogues, Oratories, and places of Worship throughout the land of Canaan, their course of reading, and many the like.
But if the way or manner of Worship be stretched to the circumstances of time, place, order, phrase of speech, and such like, not determined by God in particular, but left to the libertie of Christians, so the generall rules of Scripture be observed, then the proposition is not true, the Scriptures doe not confirm it, it was never acknowledged by Divines of any sort or sect that have appeared to the world. For what is in generall only Divine, but in particular left without determination from God, that in it selfe is indifferent and variable: of which sort were the houres of the morning and evening sacrifice, their Synagogues, Oratories, and places of Worship throughout the land of Canaan, their course of reading, and many the like.
What God hath commanded in his Word, that is not left to the liberty of Christians: What is prescribed as necessary, worship, holy, that he hath not left undetermined: But that which may be done this way, or another, at this time, or another, in this form of speech and method, or another, that in respect of this order, time, method, or phrase of speech, is not necessary, holy, or worship.
What God hath commanded in his Word, that is not left to the libertie of Christians: What is prescribed as necessary, worship, holy, that he hath not left undetermined: But that which may be done this way, or another, at this time, or another, in this forme of speech and method, or another, that in respect of this order, time, method, or phrase of speech, is not necessarie, holy, or worship.