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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. 15. pag 133. › ANSWER.
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And as one false Church may be more corrupt than another, 1or at one time than another: so one false Church may have more of God in it than another, and at another time. For the less grievous the errors are which the false Church holdeth, or the less abominable the idolatry which it maintaineth, the more divine truth it embraceth, the more effectual is that worship of God which it retaineth.
And as one false Church may be more corrupt than another, 1or at one time than another: so one false Church may have more of God in it than another, and at another time. For the lesse grievous the errors are which the false Church holdeth, or the lesse abominable the idolatry which it maintaineth, the more divine truth it embraceth, the more effectuall is that worship of God which it retaineth.
- 1Hen. Ains. 2. part page 62. Did not the Priests, rulers, and people condemn the Prophets of God sent in all ages; and was not Jerusalem the holy City & seat of the Priest-hood guilty of their blood? Luke 13.33, 34. was not vile and gross Idolatry practised often in Judah and Jerusalem by the Priests and Princes? Ezek. 23.11. Did not Judah forsake the Lord and turn their faces from his Tabernacle, shut the doors of his house, quench his Lamps, and neither burn Incense nor offer burnt offering in the Sanctuary, unto the God of Jsrael? 2 Chro. 29.6, 7. Uriah the Priest made an Altar Idolatrous like that in Damascus, and polluted Gods Worship in the Temple, 2 Reg. 16.10, 11, 12, 16. Pashur the sonne of Immer the Priest being Governor in the House of the Lord persecuted Jeremiah for preaching the truth, Jer. 20.1, 2. and himself prophesied lies, ve. 6. See Jer. 32.31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.