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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
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CHAP. II.
That God must be worshipped according to his own will and commandment, 1and that nothing must go under the name of worship, which he hath not commanded, or instituted in his Word, is a truth confessed and maintained by the Church of England, Conformists and Non-conformists. So that it is altogether needless to spend many words and quote many Authors to prove that which is commonly received, if it be not a wrong to mention that as a principle of the Non-conformists, which is the doctrine of the Church, with one consent professed of all the members of the society: Else where you write (but your speech is over-lavish as most commonly it is) that all sorts and sects of Writers acknowledge this for a truth, that to worship God in any other way or manner, than he hath in his Word prescribed, is unlawful: And therefore this pains here taken might well have been spared; but the plenty herein may serve to hide your poverty in that which is to be proved.
THat God must be worshipped according to his owne will and commandement, 1and that nothing must goe under the name of worship, which he hath not commanded, or instituted in his Word, is a truth confessed and maintained by the Church of England, Conformists and Non-conformists. So that it is altogether needlesse to spend many words and quote many Authors to prove that which is commonly received, if it be not a wrong to mention that as a principle of the Non-conformists, which is the doctrine of the Church, with one consent professed of all the members of the societie: Else where you write (but your speech is over-lavish as most commonly it is) that all sorts and sects of Writers acknowledg this for a truth, that to worship God in any other way or manner, than he hath in his Word prescribed, is unlawfull: And therefore this paines here taken might well have been spared; but the plenty herein may serve to hide your poverty in that which is to be proved.