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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 5 › Section 1 › ANSWER.Chapter 5 › Section 1 › ANSVVER.
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Secondly, If the Pastor be aged, weak, sickly, unable to bear the burden of his charge alone, he may take unto him, with consent of the society and college Ecclesiastical, Assisters or Helpers; 1Ut tam praesentes in urbe sublevarentur, quam ut absentibus ipsis, Ecclesiae pastoribus destituta non esset, delegerunt (scil. Apostoli) sibi coadjutores: Quod nominatim ex Epiphanio heres. 227. apparet. Tales fuerunt hi tres, Clemens, Linus, Cletus, Aut, ut noster Author ait, Anacletus. So Maximus helped Macarius until his death; and Augustine Valerius. And if the Pastor be careless or negligent, it is lawful for the people to provide for themselves, by the best means that they can, or God is pleased to afford unto them, that they might be taught and instructed in the ways of holiness.
Secondly, If the Pastour be aged, weake, sickly, unable to beare the burden of his charge alone, he may take unto him, with consent of the societie and colledge Ecclesiasticall, Assisters or Helpers; 1Ʋt tam praesentes in urbe sublevarentur, quam ut absentibus ipsis, Ecclesiae pastoribus destituta non esset, delegerunt (scil. Apostoli) sibi coadjutores: Quod nominatim ex Epiphanio heres. 227. apparet. Tales fuerunt hi tres, Clemens, Linus, Cletus, Aut, ut noster Author ait, Anacletus. So Maximus helped Macarius untill his death; and Augustine Valerius. And if the Pastour be carelesse or negligent, it is lawfull for the people to provide for themselves, by the best meanes that they can, or God is pleased to afford unto them, that they might be taught and instructed in the wayes of holinesse.
- 1Videl. in Ignat: ad Mariam. exercit. 3.
- 2Sozom. hist. lib. 2. cap. 19. Euseb. lib. 6. ca. 10. Gr.