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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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In the New Testament, 1the Apostle telleth us the mystery of iniquity began to work in his days: whereby he understands not common heresies, and corruption of manners, but some great and hidden thing begun in the Apostles time to creep on by degrees, not suddenly to vanish, but to continue for many ages, and to grow into an exceeding high mountain. As the mystery of godliness, which began presently after the fall, took it complement by degrees, and that at a certain and appointed time: so it was in this also, which at the first was small, but grew as things durable by degrees into an exceeding huge bigness. The spirit hath foretold, that there should come an Apostasy or defection, not from the Roman Empire (for that was not opposite to Christ) but from the faith, and that not light or in some particular point, or for a short time (for such Heretics there had been already) but grievous, general, and of long continuance.
In the New Testament, 1the Apostle telleth us the mysterie of iniquitie began to worke in his dayes: whereby he understands not common heresies, and corruption of manners, but some great and hidden thing begun in the Apostles time to creepe on by degrees, not suddenly to vanish, but to continue for many ages, and to grow into an exceeding high mountaine. As the mysterie of godlinesse, which began presently after the fall, took it complement by degrees, and that at a certaine and appointed time: so it was in this also, which at the first was small, but grew as things durable by degrees into an exceeding huge bignesse. The spirit hath foretold, that there should come an Apostasie or defection, not from the Roman Empire (for that was not opposite to Christ) but from the faith, and that not light or in some particular point, or for a short time (for such Haeretickes there had beene already) but grievous, generall, and of long continuance.
- 12 Thes. 2.7. Revel. 17.5. Iniquitas sed mystica id est, pietatis nomine palliata. Gloss. ordinar. Sir. Mysterium iniqui jam incipit efficaz esse. [Greek or Hebrew] est vis certa operandi, non autem significandi. Cham. panst. some. 2. lib. 16. cap. 7. Hesych. [Greek or Hebrew], praeparatur, adornatur, instruitur. [Greek or Hebrew] quoddam doctrinae, quod si [Greek or Hebrew] sumptum contrarium sit fidei, Cham. panst. tom. 2. l. 16. cap. s 5.