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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.
if the Elders against the people, he whom they approve is no Minister unto them, because not chosen by their suffrage; And so if there be dissension they must separate from, or excommunicate one another, because he is no Minister to the one whom the other approve. The Orthodox Pastors did profess, so that the Donatists would return to the true and Apostolical doctrine, they would not disallow their Bishops, that they might understand that Catholics did not detest Christian consecration (as Augustine speaks) by humane error. The high Priesthood was bought and sold for money, and sometimes made annual, and every year new high Priests created, Sicut isti praefecti quos singulis annis promutant reges, as Sol: Jarchi saith. That as every man would lay out more or less money, he should get or lose the Priesthood, which may be seen in the examples of Jason or Menelaus.
if the Elders against the people, he whom they approve is no Minister unto them, because not chosen by their suffrage; And so if there be dissention they must seperate from, or excommunicate one another, because he is no Minister to the one whom the other approve. The Orthodox Pastors did professe, so that the Donatists would returne to the true and Apostolicall doctrine, they would not disallow their Bishops, that they might understand that Catholiques did not detest Christian consecration (as Augustine speakes) by humane error. The high Priesthood was bought and sold for money, and sometimes made annuall, and every yeare new high Priests created, Sicut isti praefecti quos singulis annis promutant reges, as Sol: Jarchi saith. That as every man would lay out more or lesse money, he should get or lose the Priesthood, which may be seene in the examples of Jason or Menelaus.
Nevertheless, so long as the Jews continued the true Church of God,1 the Priesthood was true also. The reformed Churches who have separated from the abominations of Rome, profess the first reformers among them received some ordinary calling in the Roman Synagogue. They that think the basest of Rome, will acknowledge Baptism unduly administered by Priests or Jesuits, to be for substance the holy Sacrament of Christ. And if the Baptism of God may be derived from the Ministry, it is no absurdity to think