A30189:165
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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Any circumstance, as time, place, or whatsoever else, if it be either appropriated or commanded of God, it is necessary in point of conscience, holy, and worship, as in conscience it must be observed, and submitted unto. But to place necessity, holiness or worship in these things, when they be not determined or commanded, is Will-worship, or superstition; lawful ⟨p. 47⟩they be, as agreeable to the Word; but not necessary, because not determined by the Word.
Any circumstance, as time, place, or whatsoever else, if it be either appropriated or commanded of God, it is necessarie in point of conscience, holy, and worship, as in conscience it must be observed, and submitted unto. But to place necessitie, holinesse or worship in these things, when they be not determined or commanded, is Will-worship, or superstition; lawfull ⟨p. 47⟩they be, as agreeable to the Word; but not necessary, because not determined by the Word.
The time was when it was lawful to offer sacrifices upon the high places, 1viz. when the place for Sacrifices was undetermined, and then it had been Will-worship to put holiness in places, or opinion of worship. But when God had chosen out, and appropriated one place for Sacrifice, and none other, then it was a matter of necessity, holiness, and worship, to sacrifice there, and a great sin to do it any where else.
The time was when it was lawfull to offer sacrifices upon the high places, 1viz. when the place for Sacrifices was undetermined, and then it had been Will-worship to put holinesse in places, or opinion of worship. But when God had chosen out, and appropriated one place for Sacrifice, and none other, then it was a matter of necessitie, holinesse, and worship, to sacrifice there, and a great sinne to doe it any where else.