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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
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CAN Stay. Sect. 5. pag. 66.
In preaching of the truths of the Gospel by a false Minister, an Idolatrous act is performed. For Divine worship is not to be determined by a particular thing (howbeit in it self good) but as the essential parts belonging thereto (whether they are persons or things) are kept and observed. The Church of Rome in Baptism useth water, and in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper gives bread and wine otherwhile too: doth ⟨p. 107⟩this clear their administrations of Idolatry? I think all men do think that Uzziah committed an Idolatrous act, 1when he invaded the Priests office. But what made it so? took he unlawful incense? no. Used he strange fire? no. Offered he prohibited Sacrifice, or upon a wrong Altar, No: Where then lay the fault, the Scripture telleth us, 2it pertained not to him to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the sons of Aaron. To apply this, if his act were Idolatrous because he wanted a calling, howbeit observed many truths of the law. By the same reason the Church acts of Antichristian Ministers are Idolatrous, yea, and as for the truths which they preach, this clears their acts no more from Idolatry, than Uzziah's true Incense and the Altar quitted him from transgression.
In preaching of the truths of the Gospell by a false Minister, an Idolatrous act is performed. For Divine worship is not to be determined by a particular thing (howbeit in it selfe good) but as the essentiall parts belonging thereto (whether they are persons or things) are kept and observed. The Church of Rome in Baptisme useth water, and in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper gives bread and wine otherwhile too: doth