A30189:166
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.
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.
- 1Drus. ad dissic. loc. O at. 12. p. 571. Rivet. in Hos. 4.13. Ainsw. annot. in Levit. 17.5. Jun. annot. in Levit. 17 5. & in 1 Reg. 3.3. Illud in Theologia bonum est, quod Deus praecepit, lex enim Deiperfecta est bonitatis moralis regula in Theologia, & prohibitio Divina perfecturest index Theologieus mali jae m•ralis Hen. Ainsw. 3. ans. p. 151. Explications of Gods Law by them ••u•h of his Ministers, are allowed of God. Neh. 8.8. These are not additions, such as God forbids. Gal. 3.15. 15 Our question is of other, or moe laws or Doctrines than God hath taught. Scotia Confess. art. 20. Iva. thes. theol. c. 6. thes. 11.12. Quaecunque verò in carcumslantiis posita saint, corumtradi•i•nes in ecclesi â esse auesse posse, verumtamen pat. lares, temporaliliberas agnoscimus; Atque barum quidem traditionum quae in circumstantiis versantur sex for Paulo