A30189:371
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. 6. pag 79.
If to hear Antichristian Ministers be to serve God in and by an Ordinance; 1way or institution devised by Idolaters and with Idolaters, then it is unlawful. But the first is true, Therefore the second. The proposition is undeniable by the Treatisers own confession (you should have said the assumption, for if the Treatisers words prove ought, they must be applied thereunto. As for the proposition they speak not to it at all. But forwardness here and in many other places hath made you forget your terms of Art) He that hears the Ministers ⟨p. 117⟩of the Bishops sending, and of the Parishes sent to, he hears (in the sense of the Scriptures) false Prophets. 2But it is not lawful to hear false Prophets. The Major is proved clearly in defence of our twelfth objection. The Minor is certain by these reasons. 1. The hearing of false Prophets is forbidden in the word of God, &c.
If to heare Antichristian Ministers bee to serve God in and by an Ordinance; 1way or institution devised by Idolaters and with Idolaters, then it is unlawfull. But the first is true, Therefore the second. The proposition is undeniable by the Treatisers owne confession (you should have said the assumption, for if the Treatisers words prove ought, they must be applyed thereunto. As for the proposition they speake not to it at all. But forwardnesse here and in many other places hath made you forget your tearmes of Art) He that heares the Ministers ⟨p. 117⟩