A30189:183
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.
You say, it is a certain rule (as Logicians teach) Things are really to be distinguished; which in themselves are to be separated each from other. But the rule is, That all things are really distinguished, which may be separated each from other, as the body is really distinguished from the apparel, because the garment may be separated from the body, & the body from the garment. How truly you understand, or fitly apply that Maxim, it is needless to examine further: but what you observe in your Pistoler (as you stile him) that is most true in your self and some others, that ignorance or neglect of distinguishing things that differ in this matter of Gods Worship, is one main cause of great error and going astray.
You say, it is a certaine rule (as Logicians teach) Things are really to be distinguished; which in themselves are to be separated each from other. But the rule is, That all things are really distinguished, which may be separated each from other, as the body is really distinguished from the apparrel, because the garment may be separated from the body, & the body from the garment. How truely you understand, or fitly apply that Maxime, it is needlesse to examine further: but what you observe in your Pistoler (as you stile him) that is most true in your selfe and some others, that ignorance or neglect of distinguishing things that differ in this matter of Gods Worship, is one maine cause of great error and going astray.
In proof of your proposition also, you lavish somewhat, when you say without limitation, That all sorts and sects of Writers acknowledge it for a truth; For the Papists generally hold the contrary, as you know. But this is a thing with you very usual and common.
In proofe of your proposition also, you lavish somewhat, when you say without limitation, That all sorts and sects of Writers acknowledge it for a truth; For the Papists generally hold the contrary, as you know. But this is a thing with you very usuall and common.