A30189:638
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. III.
That it is so I prove it thus; 1That Ministry is unlawful, which none may lawfully give. But none may lawfully bestow the Ministry of a Lecturer. Therefore that Ministry is unlawful. The Assumption for shame cannot be denied, if the nature of it be considered. For as we but even now said, their Lecturers take no charge of a flock upon them, they make covenant we•h the people, but for a certain time; the peculiar work of a Minister is not by the people laid upon them, weither expected of them. If any object, that they preach the Word. To this Dr Ames gives an answer fully, that the preaching of the Gospel is not a work peculiar to a Minister: for such as are private men, and out of office, may and ought to preach the Word, as occasion is offered, and not only privately, but, saith he, in the public Congregation, &c.
THat it is so I prove it thus; 1That Ministery is unlawfull, which none may lawfully give. But none may lawfully bestow the Ministery of a Lecturer. Therefore that Ministery is unlawlawfull. The Assumption for shame cannot be denied, if the nature of it be considered. For as we but even now said, their Lecturers take no charge of a flocke upon them, they make covenant we•h the people, but for a certaine time; the peculiar worke of a Minister is not by the people laid upon them, weither expected of them. If any object, that they preach the Word. To this Dr Ames gives an answer fully, that the preaching of the Gospell is not a worke peculiar to a Minister: for such as are private men, and out of office, may and ought to preach the Word, as occasion is offered, and not onely privately, but, saith he, in the publique Congregation, &c.