A30189:630
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
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SECT. II.
That Ministry which is instituted and set up besides those which God hath appointed in his Word, 1is unlawful and false. But the Ministry of Lecturers in England is instituted and set beside these, which God hath appointed in his Word. Therefore that Ministry is unlawful and false. The proposition is plain and undeniable, and we have their own words to confirm it. For thus they say, All the Ministry is by the Word of God, and not left to the will of man to devise at their pleasure, as appeareth by that which is noted of John, where the Pharisees coming to him, after that he had denied to be either Christ, or Elijah, or another Prophet, conclude if he be neither Christ nor Elijah, nor of the Prophets, why baptizest thou? Which had been no good argument, if John might have been of other function, than of those which were ordinary in the Church, 2and instituted of God, &c. Again to devise another Ministry, than that which God hath appointed, is condemned by the second Commandment.
THat Ministery which is instituted and set up besides those which God hath appointed in his Word, 1is unlawfull and false. But the Ministery of Lecturers in England is instituted and set beside these, which God hath appointed in his Word. Therefore that Ministery is unlawfull and false. The proposition is plaine and undeniable, and we have their owne words to confirme it. For thus they say, All the Ministery is by the Word of God, and not left to the will of man to devise at their pleasure, as appeareth by that which is noted of John, where the Pharisees comming to him, after that he had denied to be either Christ, or Elias, or another Prophet, conclude if he be neither Christ nor Elias, nor of the Prophets, why baptizest thou? Which had been no good argument, if John might have been of other function, than of those which were ordinary in the Church,