A30189:72
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.
They that preached Christ of envy, 1to add affliction to Pauls bands, were they true Ministers or false? What soever you will say, to hear them preach Christ, was no breach of the second Commandment. If in some respects they were true and false both, then the Ministry is not absolutely false, which in some considerations is not pure, as it ought, and is to be desired; then the Ministry may be true in one respect, and false in another; then also it is no sin to communicate with, or in a false Ministry, so far, to wit, as it hath truth, and doth carry the stamp of God, so far as the faithful are allowed to desire, and they have authority (though not approbation) from God, to dispense his ordinances.
They that preached Christ of envie, 1to adde affliction to Pauls bands, were they true Ministers or false? What soever you will say, to heare them preach Christ, was no breach of the second Commandement. If in some respects they were true and false both, then the Ministerie is not absolutely false, which in some considerations is not pure, as it ought, and is to be desired; then the Ministerie may be true in one respect, and false in another; then also it is no sinne to communicate with, or in a false Ministerie, so far, to wit, as it hath truth, and doth carry the stampe of God, so farre as the faithfull are allowed to desire, and they have authoritie (though not approbation) from God, to dispence his ordinances.
- 1Phil. 1.15. St Paul. to the Philip. is glad that the Gospel is preached although it be not purely, but he would never have been glad, if it should have been preached falsely, or not truly, &c. the want of a good calling, may give occasion to say, that the Word of God is not sincerely taught, because there is not a lawful & ordinary calling: l. C. repl. 1 pag. 28.Phil. 1.15. St Paul. to the Philip. is glad that the Gospel is preached although it be not purely, but he would never have been glad, if it should have been preached falsly, or not truly, &c. the want of a good calling, may give occasion to say, that the Word of God is not sincerely taught, because there is not a lawfull & ordinary calling: l. C. repl. 1 pag. 28.