A30189:427
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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Master Baines, as you allege him, writes. 1That no people can worship God in repairing to any Church or ministry without warrant of the Word. Let the Reader note it, say you. And if it be wisely noted, it makes nothing against partaking in our assemblies in the ordinances of Grace, because that is warranted, approved; commanded of God in his holy Word. But Master Baines words, are, No people can worship God in repairing to this place and ministry, without warrant of his Word. And he speaks of a Diocesan worship, and ministry peculiarly appropriated to that place, as it was at Jerusalem: which is nothing to your purpose.
Master Baines, as you alledge him, writes. 1That no people can worship God in repairing to any Church or ministery without warrant of the Word. Let the Reader note it, say you. And if it be wisely noted, it makes nothing against partaking in our assemblies in the ordinances of Grace, because that is warranted, approved; commanded of God in his holy Word. But Master Baines words, are, No people can worship God in repairing to this place and ministerie, without warrant of his Word. And he speakes of a Diocesan worship, and ministerie peculiarly appropriated to that place, as it was at Hierusalem: which is nothing to your purpose.
- 1CAN Stay sect. 2. p. 55. Bain. diocesan.
You pretend that you have taken your principles, out of ⟨p. 136⟩the Nonconformists, ever the chiefest of them, which for learning, 1zeal, judgement, holiness of life, &c. have ever held that cause. But some things brought in their names, is neither the opinion of all, nor of the most, nor of the best learned, nor of many, but either the private opinion of some one, or the conceit of such indeed, as were separated from the communion of the Church of England, and not from the abuses only which were in the Church.