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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
Chapter 1 › Section 4 › CAN. Stay. Sec. 3. pag. 18. › ANSWER.
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ANSWER.
Here yout•g what we shall never grant, 1nor you be able to prove, to wit, that our Church is an Idol Church, our Ministry an Idol Ministry, and that our forefathers never rightly served God in our Assemblies: which is an easy kind of disputing, if you get a reader as credulous and willing to be mislead, as you are peremptory in passing sentence. But if we should believe you herein, we should belly the mercy of God, and condemn the generation of his Saints.
Here yout•g what we shall never grant, 1nor you be able to prove, to wit, that our Church is an Idoll Church, our Ministery an Idoll Ministery, and that our forefathers never rightly served God in our Assemblies: which is an easie kind of disputing, if you get a reader as credulous and willing to bee mislead, as you are peremptorie in passing sentence. But if we should believe you herein, wee should bely the mercy of God, and condemn the generation of his Saints.
- 1If a mortal enemy may both accuse and judge, and proceed upon no better ground than suspicion, you may quickly condemn any man of heresy. Bilson. Chri. part. 3. pag. 203.If a mortall enemy may both accuse and judge, and proceed upon no better ground than suspition, you may quickly condemne any man of heresie. Bilson. Chri. part. 3. pag. 203.
As for the high places of which we read often in Scripture, it was lawful for the Fathers of old to offer Sacrifices upon them, when it was not precisely commanded, but only the place for sacrifice undetermined. But after that God