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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.
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.
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.
But to brand the Churches of Christ since the reformation, who have renounced Antichrists doctrine, worship, and idolatries, and embraced the entire faith of the Lord Jesus, with that odious hateful name, is contrary to the truth of God, evident reason, and the judgement of all approved godly learned men.
But to brand the Churches of Christ since the reformation, who have renounced Antichrists doctrine, worship, and idolatries, and embraced the intire faith of the Lord Jesus, with that odious hatefull name, is contrary to the truth of God, evident reason, and the judgement of all approved godly learned men.
You miserably corrupt and pervert the Text, when you give this to be the sense thereof, Remove your selves from all false Assemblies, covenant together to walk in all the ways of God, serve the Lord among your selves in spirit and truth, and return not from whence you are come. This is not to interpret Scripture, and learn of them what we are to think, but to rack Scriptures to our sense, and make them speak according to our fancies, which is an high point of Antichristianism.