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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.
Christs Religion is not so needy or unperfect of it self, so needy and beggarly, that it must borrow Embring days of the Heathen, Altars of the Pope, 1or Vestments of the Jews: But as the Church is plentifully furnished by Christ, and needeth supply from none other; so it is her part to retain what is freely and graciously vouchsafed of him.
Christs Religion is not so needie or unperfect of it selfe, so needy and beggarly, that it must borrow Embring dayes of the Heathen, Altars of the Pope, 1or Vestments of the Jewes: But as the Church is plentifully furnished by Christ, and needeth supply from none other; so it is her part to retaine what is freely and graciously vouchsafed of him.
- 1William Salisbur. in his Battery of the Popes Batter. An. 1550.
If it be wholly taken out of the Mass-book, 1how comes it to have those things, which are so directly contrary to the Mass, that both cannot possibly stand together. In our book of Common-prayer, we pray to God only in the mediation ⟨p. 10⟩of Jesus Christ, and in a known language: We profess that Christ by one oblation of himself once for all, hath made a full, perfect, and sufficient satisfaction for the sins of the whole world: that he hath commanded a perpetual remembrance of his death and passion in that his ordinance of the Supper: and that the Sacrament is to be administered in both kinds; the Minister and the people communicating together: were these things taken out of the Mass-book? The Church of Rome joineth the two first Commandments in one, or taketh away the second, thereby to cloak their Idolatry in the worshipping of Images: But the common-prayer-book of the Church of England divideth them into two, therein following (two of the Fathers at most excepted) all Antiquity, and fetcheth down the words of the second Commandment at large. The Church of Rome teacheth, that in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, the body and blood of Christ is received and eaten carnally; that as much is received in one kind, as in both, and that in the Mass Christ is offered […] a propitiatory unbloody Sacrifice, for the sins of […] and dead: But the common-prayer-book of the Church of England, in the form of administering that Sacrament, teacheth expressly; That spiritually by faith we feed on him in our. hearts, eating and drinking in remembrance that Christ dyed and shed his blood for us. In the Mass the Priest receiveth alone, the people standing by, gazing on: but the Minister and people are appointed with us to communicate together; according to the institution of Christ, and practice of the primitive Church. We make the communion of the Eucharist properly a Sacrament: They, a Sacrament and a Sacrifice propitiatory: They celebrate at an Altar: we at a Table; according to the example of our Saviour Christ, his Apostles, and the primitive Church in the purest times. We pray for the living; They for the living and dead. And if these be not points directly and expressly contrary to the Roman service, Rome is much departed from her self.