A30189:425
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.
Christ (saith Rainolds as you quote him) the Pastor of his Church, doth tell us, that he feeds not in Antichristian assemblies, in the den of thieves; neither is it his will, that his flock should there rest at noon: But in the pleasant pasture, by the still waters, that is, in the shadows of the true Christian Churches detesting Idolatry. But D. Rainolds words are, not in caetibus papisticis, speluncis idol•latrarum, &c. but in untbraculis orthodoxorumcatuum. Whether this change of Antichristian Assemblies, for popish Assemblies, and true ⟨p. 135⟩Christian Churches for Orthodox Assemblies, 1w• made in simplicity, be judge your self. You might easily conjecture, your credulous reader might conceit, our assemblies to be Antichristian, and not true Churches, but popish Assemblies, and not Orthodox he could not imagine them to be.
Christ (saith Rainolds as you quote him) the Pastor of his Church, doth tell us, that he feeds not in Antichristian assemblies, in the denne of theeves; neither is it his will, that his flock should there rest at noone: But in the pleasant pasture, by the still waters, that is, in the shadowes of the true Christian Churches detesting Idolatry. But D. Rainolds words are, not in caetibus papisticis, speluncis idol•latrarum, &c. but in untbraculis orthodoxorumcatuum. Whether this change of Antichristian Assemblies, for popish Assemblies, and true ⟨p. 135⟩Christian Churches for Orthodox Assemblies, 1w• made in simplicitie, be judge your selfe. You might easily conjecture, your credulous reader might conceit, our assemblies to be Antichristian, and not true Churches, but popish Assemblies, and not Orthodox he could not imagine them to be.
- 1CAN Stay § 3. p 22. D. […] by words and Letters testimonial 24.