A30189:574
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.
SECT. II.
The material Temple was a type of the visible Churches under the Gospel; Now we read, that it was built from the very foundation •f costly stones, of Cedars, Algum, Fir, and the like choice and special trees, and those all prepared aforehand, hewed and perfect for the building, so that neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool was to be hea din the house, in the building of it; no common or vile thing was used towards it; neither might any polluted person enter it and offer, until he had repented and embraced the faith, 1and been cleansed from his filthiness. By the gates of the house were Porters set to keep the unworthy out. Upon the Altar there might be offered no unclean beast, no nor that which was clean, having a blemish upon it. What in all this was signified? Only this: Such as will build a spiritual house for the Lord to ⟨p. 67⟩dwell in, must be an holy people: for he is of that infinite purity, that he will not vouchsafe his special presence unto profane companies, which join themselves together; and therefore let it be far from all men to prepare a place for him, with such trash, or to defile his holy things with such unclean persons, or to offend his nostrils with the stink of such sacrifices.
THe materiall Temple was a type of the visible Churches under the Gospell; Now we read, that it was built from the very foundation •f costly stones, of Cedars, Algum, Firre, and the like choice and speciall trees, and those all prepared aforehand, hewed and perfect for the building, so that neither hammer, nor axe, nor any toole was to be hea din the house, in the building of it; no common or vile thing was used towards it; neither might any polluted person enter it and offer, untill he had repented and embraced the faith,