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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.
CAN Stay sect. 12 pag. 119, 120.
If an unlawful outward calling make an unlawful Minister, then it makes a false Prophet. For according to the Scriptures, it is all one thing, only expressed in divers terms, &c. We know no mean between true Prophets and false, for whosoever is not a true Prophet is a false Prophet, 1and whosoever is a false Prophet, cannot be a true Prophet of God. He that is of God is a true Prophet, he that is of the Devil is a false Prophet; neither doth the delivery and utterance of some truths, make him a true Prophet, for then the Devil should be a true Prophet, who sometimes speaks the truth, albeit to a sinister end. Balaam was a very witch, a wizard, a false Prophet, a true sorcerer, famous, or rather infamous for his Devilish magic, which he practised among the wicked idolatrous nation. So Attersol and many others so too, as Junius, Simpson, Ferus, Canutus, and before them Origen, Greg. Nazianzene, Basil.
If an unlawfull outward calling make an unlawfull Minister, then it makes a false Prophet. For according to the Scriptures, it is all one thing, only expressed in divers terms, &c. We know no meane betweene true Prophets and false, for whosoever is not a true Prophet is a false Prophet, 1and whosoever is a false Prophet, cannot be a true Prophet of God. He that is of God is a true Prophet, he that is of the Devill is a false Prophet; neither doth the deliverie and utterance of some truths, make him a true Prophet, for then the Devill should be a true Prophet, who sometimes speakes the truth, albeit to a sinister end. Balaam was a very witch, a wizard, a false Prophet, a true sorcerer, famous, or rather infamous for his Divellish magick, which he practised among the wicked idolatrous nation. So Attersol and many others so too, as Junius, Simpson, Ferus, Canutus, and before them Origen, Greg. Nazianzene, Basil.