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A trial of the new-church way in New-England and in old ... by that…A tryall of the nevv-church vvay in New-England and in old ... by that…
A trial of the new-church way in New-England and in old ... by that learned and godly minister of Christ, John Ball of Whitmore ; penned a little before his death and sent over to the New England ministers, anno 1637, as a reply to an answer of theirs in justification of the said positions ... ; now published ... by William Rathband and Simeon Ash.A tryall of the nevv-church vvay in New-England and in old ... by that learned and godly minister of Christ, John Ball of Whitmore ; penned a little before his death and sent over to the New England ministers, anno 1637, as a reply to an answer of theirs in justification of the said positions ... ; now published ... by William Rathband and Simeon Ash.
London: printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons for Thomas Underhill, 1644
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.
Your third proposition. That as you are very tender of imputing sin to those men that join in some select prayers read by an able and godly Minister: so on the other side you are not without fear, least such joining may be found unlawful, unless it may appear that the Ministers with whom the people have communion in reading those Prayers, neither give any scandal by reading them, nor give unlawful honour to a thing abused to Idolatry and Superstition, nor do suffer themselves to be sinfully limited in the reading of them.
Your third proposition. That as you are very tender of imputing sinne to those men that joyne in some select prayers read by an able and godly Minister: so on the other side you are not without feare, least such joyning may be found unlawfull, unlesse it may appeare that the Ministers with whom the people have communion in reading those Prayers, neither give any scandall by reading them, nor give unlawfull honour to a thing abused to Idolatry and Superstition, nor doe suffer themselves to be sinfully limited in the reading of them.
1 We cannot conceive how you should imagine the practice of a godly Minister in reading some few select prayers to be scandalous or offensive in their congregations when the people generally, not in their assemblies only, but throughout the whole land, were persuaded of the lawfulness of that course till now of late some have been drawn away to separate, who yet by warrant of Scripture produce nothing of weight to countenance that practice.
1 We cannot conceive how you should imagine the practice of a godly Minister in reading some few select prayers to be scandalous or offensive in their congregations when the people generally, not in their assemblies onely, but throughout the whole land, were perswaded of the lawfulnesse of that course till now of late some have beene drawne away to separate, who yet by warrant of Scripture produce nothing of weight to countenance that practice.