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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
Chapter 4 › Section 2 › ANSWER.Chapter 4 › Section 2 › ANSVVER.
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The practice of the Church according to the example of the Apostles in qreceiving Heathens and them that were without into society was this. First, They were taught in the principles of Religion, and then the doctrine of Christ being received, profession made, with promise to renounce the world, the flesh, and the Devil, they were baptized. Justine sometime an Heathen Philosopher, but after a famous Martyr of Christ, in his second Apology for Christians, reporteth. That if any Heathen man desired to be received into the fellowship of the Church, he was first rcatechised in the principles of Religion, & then hearing further the word of God, as it were, the Conditions of the Covenant of grace; afterwards came into the face of the Congregation, and confessed that he did believe, and promised that he would obey the word of God; whereupon he was baptized, and received into the fellowship of the Church. And that this order might be the better observed, the Church appointed certain times, and in some places a longer space, at other times, and in other places a shorter time, for catechising of Heathen, before they were baptized. Socrates writeth that when the Burgundians desired to be initiated into the number of Christian people, after they had been catechised seven days, they were baptized the eighth. Hierome saith, the custom in his days was to catechize them forty days, and then to baptize them. Tertullian witnesseth, that there were two times in the year, Easter and Whitsuntide, especially appointed by the Church for Baptism; and strangers from the Covenant were instructed in the principles of Religion, all the rest of the year, against these two times.
The practice of the Church according to the example of the Apostles in qreceiving Heathens and them that were without into societie was this. First, They were taught in the principles of Religion, and then the doctrine of Christ being received, profession made, with promise to renounce the world, the flesh, and the Devill, they were baptized. Justine sometime an Heathen Philosopher, but after a famous Martyr of Christ, in his second Apologie for Christians, reporteth. That if any Heathen man desired to be received into the fellowship of the Church, he was first r