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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 5 › Can. Stay. Sect. 5. Pag 37.38. › ANSWER.
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But our Churches wherein the Gospel of Christ is purely preached and professed in all points fundamental, the seals of the Covenant of Grace rightly administered, who are separated from spiritual Babylon in mind and body, and have fled from her worship and Idolatry, who are built upon Christ the ⟨p. 69⟩true and firm foundation of his Church, and by Christ himself acknowledged for his people, and graced with his favourable presence: Our Churches, I say, cannot be deemed or reputed spiritual Babylon, without great injury to Christ his truth, his Church and Saints.
But our Churches wherein the Gospell of Christ is purely preached and professed in all points fundamentall, the seales of the Covenant of Grace rightly administred, who are separaced from spirituall Babylon in mind and body, and have fled from her worship and Idolatry, who are built upon Christ the ⟨p. 69⟩true and firme foundation of his Church, and by Christ himselfe acknowledged for his people, and graced with his favourable presence: Our Churches, I say, cannot be deemed or reputed spirituall Babylon, without great injurie to Christ his truth, his Church and Saints.
By spiritual Babylon in this book of the Revelation, is meant Rome Christian; departed from the faith, guilty of the blood of Saints, stained with manifold and fearful Idolatries, the mother of fornications, who hath made drunk the Kings of the earth with the cup of her poisons, as might be confirmed by the Scripture it self, the joint consent of learned orthodox Divines, and the testimony of Papists themselves.
By spirituall Babylon in this booke of the Revelation, is meant Rome Christian; departed from the faith, guilty of the blood of Saints, stained with manyfold and fearfull Idolatries, the mother of fornications, who hath made drunke the Kings of the earth with the cup of her poysons, as might bee confirmed by the Scripture it self, the joynt consent of learned orthodox Divines, and the testimonie of Papists themselves.