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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
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Can. Stay. Sect. 3. Pag. 19.
Ought we not to believe, that as God had commanded us to worship Him, that is, to hear his Word, receive the Sacraments and to use other His Ordinances: so He hath also called and separated unto himself a Church, a Communion of Saints, and holy ones, in and amongst whom these holy things are to be used, and that we are to look in what fellowship we receive the holy things of God, as what the things are we do receive. In a word, ought we not to be persuaded, that as the legal Sacrifices out of the Tabernacle or Temple, within whose circle they were prescribed by the mouth of God, were unlawfully offered: so all the Ordinances and exercises of the Church under the Gospel done out of a true constituted Church are altogether and every way sinful.1
Ought we not to beleeve, that as God had commanded us to worship Him, that is, to heare his Word, receive the Sacraments and to use other His Ordinances: so Hee hath also called and separated unto himselfe a Church, a Communion of Saints, and holy ones, in and amongst whom these holy things are to be used, and that we are to looke in what fellowship wee receive the holy things of God, as what the things are we doe receive. In a word, ought we not to be perswaded, that as the legall Sacrifices out of the Tabernacle or Temple, within whose circle they were prescribed by the mouth of God, were unlawfully offered: so all the Ordinances and exercises of the Church under the Gospell done out of a true constituted Church are altogether and every way sinfull.1