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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 5 › ANSWER.Chapter 4 › Section 5 › ANSVVER.
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And now I shall desire you calmly to consider how according to your principles you can untie a knot or two, if they should be knit for you in this wise.
And now I shall desire you calmely to consider how according to your principles you can untie a knot or two, if they should be knit for you in this wise.
First, He is no true Pastor of Jesus Christ, who grossly perverteth the Scripture, falsifieth Authors, deceiveth with equivocations, condemneth the true worship of God as pernicious idolatry, and the xsocieties of Saints as idolatrous and Antichristian Assemblies, and laboureth to draw Christians from the communion of Saints, which ought to be kept and maintained. Examine your writings in the fear of God, and add the proposition wanting.
First, He is no true Pastor of Jesus Christ, who grossely perverteth the Scripture, falsifieth Authors, deceiveth with aequivocations, condemneth the true worship of God as pernicious idolatrie, and the xsocieties of Saints as idolatrous and Antichristian Assemblies, and laboureth to draw Christians from the communion of Saints, which ought to be kept and maintained. Examine your writings in the feare of God, and adde the proposition wanting.
- xJewell upon the first to the Thes. chap. 1. v. 1. The Church of God is in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ; it is the company of the faithful, whom. God hath gathered together in Christ, by his Word, and by the holy Ghost, to honour him, as he himself hath appointed. This Church heareth the voice of the Shepherd. It will not follow a stranger, but flieth from him. Of this Church. Hieron. in Mic. lib. 1. cap. 1. saith, Ecclesia Christi in toto orb Ecclesias possidens, &c.Jewell upon the first to the Thes. chap. 1. v. 1. The Church of God is in God the Father, and in the Lord Iesus Christ; it is the company of the faithfull, whom. God hath gathered together in Christ, by his Word, and by the holy Ghost, to honour him, as he himselfe hath appointed. This Church heareth the voyce of the Shepheard. It will not follow a stranger, but flyeth from him. Of this Church. Hieron. in Mic. lib. 1. cap. 1. saith, Ecclesia Christi in toto orbe Ecclesias possidens, &c.