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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECTION 8.
CAN. STAY against. Sect. 5. Pag. 74. 75.
If to hear in a false Church, be any lawful ordinary means of edification, which Christ the only Teacher of his Church hath appointed, then it is set down by the ⟨p. 115⟩Apostle in Eph. 4 11, 12, 13. The reason is, because Paul there mentioneth all ministerial means for the perfect and complete building of the Church, from the first to the last. And if Christ, who in those last days speaks evidently by his Gospel and Spirit, 1had judged it fit, that his children should go unto false Churches, he would certainly have made known the same unto them.
If to heare in a false Church, bee any lawfull ordinary meanes of edification, which Christ the onely Teacher of his Church hath appointed, then it is set downe by the ⟨p. 115⟩Apostle in Eph. 4 11, 12, 13. The reason is, because Paul there mentioneth all ministeriall meanes for the perfect and compleat building of the Church, from the first to the last. And if Christ, who in those last dayes speakes evidently by his Gospell and Spirit,