A30189:481
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.
In all the order there is (you say) no edification, but confusion; but the gAuthor of the Admonition saith, In all their order of service there is no edification, according to the Rule of the Apostle, but confusion: which seemeth to be referred rather to the habuse in too many places, than to the order it self prescribed in the book, as the instances following, of tossing the Psalms like tennis-balls in many places, and the peoples standing, walking, talking, reading by themselves, do evidence. But the Book is not to be burdened with the faults of men, though too ordinary and common.
In all the order there is (you say) no edification, but confusion; but the gAuthor of the Admonition saith, In all their order of service there is no edification, according to the Rule of the Apostle, but confusion: which seemeth to be referred rather to the habuse in too many places, than to the order it selfe prescribed in the booke, as the instances following, of tossing the Psalmes like tennise-balls in many places, and the peoples standing, walking, talking, reading by themselves, doe evidence. But the Booke is not to be burdened with the faults of men, though too ordinary and common.
- g2 Admon. pag. 14.
- hIn the Church of Corinth, some of their Elders, strangers or inhabitants, to venditate themselves and the gifts they had of God, might sometimes bless or make their prayers at the Lords Table in a tongue not understood of the whole multitude. But this abuse doth not condemn the exercise it self.In the Church of Corinth, some of their Elders, strangers or inhabitāts, to venditate themselves and the gifts they had of God, might sometimes blesse or make their prayers at the Lords Table in a tongue not understood of the whole multitude. But this abuse doth not condemne the exercise it selfe.