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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 a false Church may comparatively be called a Church true or pure in respect of them that be more grossly defiled, as it hath more truth and purity in it.
And a false Church may comparatively be called a Church true or pure in respect of them that be more grossely defiled, as it hath more truth and purity in it.
Also the true Churches of God have sometimes bin distinct visible societies from the false Churches, and by many degrees in themselves more pure from tincture and infection, than at other times and some others have been. As in the days of Abiah, Judah was by many degrees more free from pollution than afterwards.
Also the true Churches of God have sometimes bin distinct visible societies from the false Churches, and by many degrees in themselves more pure from tincture and infection, than at other times and some others have beene. As in the dayes of Abiah, Iudah was by many degrees more free from pollution than afterwards.
In Pauls time the integrity of Rome was famous: Corinth many ways reproved: They of Galatia much more out of square. But the true and Orthodox Church hath sometimes been so mixed with others in outward society, that it hath been hard to find in the whole world a distinct Congregation of sound and entire professors of all supernatural truths, who joined in the use of Gods Holy Ordinances, but the members of the true visible Church were dispersed and scattered, and mingled with false Christians or false worshippers in society, and the true Church lay hid in the false.
In Pauls time the integrity of Rome was famous: Corinth many wayes reproved: They of Galatia much more out of square. But the true and Orthodox Church hath sometimes beene so mixed with others in outward society, that it hath beene hard to find in the whole world a distinct Congregation of sound and intire professors of all supernaturall truths, who joyned in the use of Gods Holy Ordinances, but the members of the true visible Church were dispersed and scattered, and mingled with false Christians or false worshippers in society, and the true Church lay hid in the false.