A30189:170
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.
Worship is as large as the Commandment, nay as the whole Word of God. 1For so it is ordinarily defined, A work commanded, done in faith, and then it must needs extend it self as far as the Commandment. And if to obey God in conscience of his Commandment, in all actions, Civill and Sacred, of Piety, Justice or Mercy, be to Worship him, then to believe whatsoever the Lord hath taught, relying upon the truth and credit of the Revealer, is worship also. And hence it is, that the Worship of God is usually divided into Immediate and Mediate Worship: which comprehendeth all duties which we owe to God or Man. Now if the way or manner of Worship be taken in this acceptation: then the sense of the Proposition must be this, That no action, great or small, done to God or man, religious or social, is lawful, unless it be prescribed of God.
Worship is as large as the Commandement, nay as the whole Word of God. 1For so it is ordinarily defined, A worke commanded, done in faith, and then it must needs extend it self as far as the Commandement. And if to obey God in conscience of his Commandement, in all actions, Civill and Sacred, of Pietie, Justice or Mercie, be to Worship him, then to beleeve whatsoever the Lord hath taught, relying upon the truth and credit of the Revealer, is worship also. And hence it is, that the Worship of God is usually divided into Immediate and Mediate Worship: which comprehendeth all duties which we owe to God or Man. Now if the way or manner of Worship be taken in this acceptation: then the sense of the Proposition must be this, That no action, great or small, done to God or man, religious or sociall, is lawfull, unlesse it be prescribed of God.
- 1Bald. de cons. l. 4. c. 3. To the precepts of God, nothing is to be added. Deut. 12. Now God hath commanded these things which are necessary. The rites of the Church are not necessary: wherefore if the abrogation, or usurpation of any rite be urged as necessary, then is an addition made to the commandment of God, which is forbidden in the Word, &c. Dea. 12.2 & 4 1, 2. & 5.32 Lev. 18.4