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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 6 › CAN. Necess. of Separation, Pag. 37. › ANSWER.
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Succession in the Apostles Doctrine is an essential and unchangeable note of the Church, which wheresoever it is found, doth argue truth of ministry in that society, for the Preaching of the Word and administration of the Sacraments, to draw men to internal Communion. For that particular Church is the true Church of Christ which retaineth unity with the Catholics, sc. the unity of the head, the unity of the body, the ⟨p. 97⟩unity of Doctrine, and unity of the Spirit. 1Aerius was called an Heretic in the time of Epiphanius, not for his opinion, but for his separation which he made together with it. For so the Fathers of the first Constantinopolitane Council, Can. 6. which in the book of Canons is 169. Haereticos autem dicimus eos qui olim ab Ecclesia abdicati sunt, & qui postea a nobis anathemati [Greek or Hebrew]: praeter hos autem & qui se sanam quidem fidem profiteri [Greek or Hebrew] subassumunt, segregaverunt autem sese & adversus Canonicos nostros Episcopos congregationem faciunt.
Succession in the Apostles Doctrine is an essentiall and unchangeable note of the Church, which wheresoever it is found, doth argue truth of ministery in that society, for the Preaching of the Word and administration of the Sacraments, to draw men to internall Communion. For that particular Church is the true Church of Christ which retayneth unity with the Catholickes, sc. the unity of the head, the unity of the body, the ⟨p. 97⟩unity of Doctrine, and unity of the Spirit. 1Aerius was called an Heretike in the time of Epiphanius, not for his opinion, but for his separation which he made together with it. For so the Fathers of the first Constantinopolitane Councell, Can. 6. which in the booke of Canons is 169. Haereticos autem dicimus eos qui olim ab Ecclesia abdicati sunt, & qui postea a nobis anathemati 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: praeter hos autem & qui se sanam quidem fidem profiteri 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 subassumunt, segregaverunt autem sese & adversus Canonicos nostros Episcopos congregationem faciunt.