A30189:176
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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If the way or manner of Worship be restrained to positive, or instituted only, it is most true; No worship is lawful, which is not in special commanded, or appointed of God in his Word. But then the Texts of Scripture, quoted by you for proof, will not speak unto it.
If the way or manner of Worship be restrained to positive, or instituted only, it is most true; No worship is lawfull, which is not in speciall commanded, or appointed of God in his Word. But then the Texts of Scripture, quoted by you for proofe, will not speak unto it.
Ye shall not do (saith Moses) after all things, 1which we do here this day, every man, all that is right in his own eyes. Some Greek copies have it, [Greek or Hebrew]. Others [Greek or Hebrew], which is according to the Hebrew. 2And the speech of Moses seems to mean the true Service of God, which was not yet perfected, neither could be in their travels, 3as it was after in Canaan, v. 10.11. Not that they sacrificed after their fancy (saith the Geneva notes) but that God would be served more purely in the land of Canaan. Jun. upon this place noteth. Etsi oblationū lex unasemper fuit ab initi• praescripta a Deo, non potuit tamen usque adeo in ambulatoriis Israelitarum castris observari, ant summo jure ab illis exigi, prout ostendit Antithesis, Vers. 11. vide Num, 28.6. The Douai Divines, on the place, give this observation, In the Desert, they could not observe the Ceremonies of the Law, but coming to rest, they were bound to keep all one set form of holy rites. The conclusion from this Text is, That God is pleased to dispense with his people in his own prescribed Worship, until, if he hath appointed, determined, or appropriated a certain form, time and place, they have opportunity to serve him at that time, in that place, and after that form. But thence it followeth not, that he hath determined,