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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.
It is said by some where the Church grew greater,1 sometimes by the sudden and extraordinary conversion of more then could well so assemble, then was there presently a dispersion of the former, and a multiplication of more particular Assemblies. But in the Scriptures quoted no such thing doth appear, but rather the contrary ⟨p. 28⟩as hath been proved. In aftertimes when the Church was within the Cities as of Rome, 2Ephesus, Alexandria, Carthage, Jerusalem, &c. 3the number of Believers did greatly exceed the bigness of a convenient and fitting assembly which might ordinarily congregate in the place to worship God according to his appointment when the Church was but one.
It is said by some where the Church grew greater,1 sometimes by the suddain and extraordinary conversion of more then could well so assemble, then was there presently a dispersion of the former, and a multiplication of more particular Assemblies. But in the Scriptures quoted no such thing doth appeare, but rather the contrary ⟨p. 28⟩as hath been proved. In aftertimes when the Church was within the Cities as of Rome, 2Ephesus, Alexandria, Carthage, Ierusalem, &c. 3the number of Believers did greatly exceed the bignesse of a convenient and fitting assembly which might ordinarily congregate in the place to worship God according to his appointment when the Church was but one.
- 1Robinson against Bern p. 196.
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