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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.
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.
2 If the book should be as you take it an idolathite, latent offence doth not oblige. If any man say unto thee, this is sacrificed to Idols, eat it not, so that if it do not manifestly appear that this practice is scandalous; it is not lawful for the people to withdraw themselves.
2 If the booke should be as you take it an idolathite, latent offence doth not oblige. If any man say unto thee, this is sacrificed to Idols, eat it not, so that if it doe not manifestly appeare that this practice is scandalous; it is not lawfull for the people to withdraw themselves.
3 The book (we speak of the Liturgy so far as it is sound and good) by your confession is no Idolathite, neither was it taken out of the Mass-book in such sense as you object, but rather the mass & other Idolatrous prayers were added to it, for popery is as a scab or leprosy cleaving to the Church; and many truths belonging to the Church as her proper legacy were stolen and heaped together in that den.