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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.
Fourthly, that visible believers baptised into a true Church professing the true faith, and walking in holy obedience, and godly conversation, that they and their seed should be judged such as are without in the Aposles sense,1 because they be not externally joined as set members to some particular congregation in Church-Covenant is affirmed, not proved.
Fourthly, that visible beleevers baptised into a true Church professing the true faith, and walking in holy obedience, and godly conversation, that they and their seed should be judged such as are without in the Aposles sense,1 because they be not externally joyned as set members to some particular congregation in Church-Covenant is affirmed, not proved.
1. It hath, and may fall out many times through the ignorance, rashness, or pride of a prevailing faction in the Church, that the true members of the Catholic Church, and the best members of the orthodox visible flock, or congregation of Christ may be no members of any distinct visible society. And shall their posterity be esteemed Aliens and Strangers from the Covenant, and debarred from the Sacraments, because their parents are unjustly separated from the inheritance of the Lord? Surely as parents unjustly excommunicated do continue still not only true members of the invisible body, but visible members of the flock of Christ: so the right of Baptism doth belong to the Infants of such parents, though not actual and constant members of this or that present assembly in Church order.
1. It hath, and may fall out many times through the ignorance, rashnesse, or pride of a prevailing faction in the Church, that the true members of the Catholique Church, and the best members of the orthodox visible flock, or congregation of Christ may be no members of any distinct visible societie. And shall their posteritie be esteemed Aliens and Strangers from the Covenant, and debarred from the Sacraments, because their parents are unjustly seperated from the inheritance of the Lord? Surely as parents unjustly excommunicated do continue still not onely true members of the invisible body, but visible members of the flock of Christ: so the right of Baptisme doth belong to the Infants of such parents, though not actuall and constant members of this or that present assembly in Church order.