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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.
But in the primitive times after the Apostles, one Church might elect and choose a Pastor for another. As Ignatius exhorts the Philadelphians, that they would elect a Pastor for the Church of Antioch. And so when the East Church was infected with Arianism, Basil, epist. 69. 70. 74. though it a fit means to remove the heresy, if the Bishops of Italy being sent thither did condemn the heresy,1 and he imploreth the aid of the Bishops of Italy, France, and all the East. Cyprian saith, all Bishops sunt mutuae concordiae glutine copulati: that if any hold heresy the rest should help. It would be too long to reckon up examples which in this case might be produced. If here it be questioned whether your election of the people be essential to the calling of a Minister: We answer. 1. A thing is essential two ways. First, as absolutely necessary, so that the thing can have no existence without it. Secondly, as necessary to the integrity of the thing, so that it is maimed without it.
But in the primitive times after the Apostles, one Church might elect and chuse a Pastor for another. As Ignatius exhorts the Phyladelphians, that they would elect a Pastor for the Church of Antioch. And so when the East Church was infected with Arrianisme, Basil, epist. 69. 70. 74. though it a fit meanes to remove the heresie, if the Bishops of Italie being sent thither did condemne the heresie,1 and he imploreth the aid of the Bishops of Italy, France, and all the East. Cyprian saith, all Bishops sunt mutuae concordiae glutine copulati: that if any hold heresie the rest should help. It would be too long to reckon up examples which in this case might be produced. If here it be questioned whether your election of the people be essentiall to the calling of a Minister: We answer. 1. A thing is essentiall two wayes. First, as absolutely necessarie, so that the thing can have no existence without it. Secondly, as necessarie to the integritie of the thing, so that it is maimed without it.
- 1Ep 13. li. 3.