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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
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.
Can. Stay. Sect. 5. Pag 37.38.
The Word preached by false Ministers is not that word unto which God hath promised a blessing of increase. Or it is not the ordinary way and means, 1which the Scripture speaks of to beget men to the faith. For as a false forged constitution makes a Church a real and substantial Idol. So all that comes from it, is touched with the Idolatry of that constitution. This is a ruled opinion of many Divines, The State makes all the public actions to be formally good or evil. For as the Temple sanctifieth the gold, 2the Altar the offerings: so the Ordinances of the Church under the Gospel are sanctified unto us. 3That is (as Bucer truly speaketh) in the use of them made lawful to us, in that they have their rise from a true and right power.
THe Word preached by false Ministers is not that word unto which God hath promised a blessing of encrease. Or it is not the ordinary way and meanes, 1which the Scripture speakes of to beget men to the faith. For as a false forged constitution makes a Church a reall and substantiall Idoll. So all that comes from it, is touched with the Idolatry of that constitution. This is a ruled opinion of many Divines, The State makes all the publike actions to be formally good or evill. For as the Temple sanctifieth the gold, 2the Altar the offerings: so the Ordinances of the Church under the Gospell are sanctified unto us.