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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.
II. POSITION.
That it is not lawful to join in prayer, or receive the Sacraments where a stinted Liturgy is used, or as we conceive your meaning to be in this, as in the former question, viz. where, and when that stinted Liturgy is used.
That it is not lawfull to joyne in prayer, or receive the Sacraments where a stinted Liturgie is used, or as we conceive your meaning to be in this, as in the former question, viz. where, and when that stinted Liturgie is used.
Answer.
IT seemeth by this your letter, the ground of this Position hath been the separation of divers from your assemblies, because of a stinted Liturgy: and we are not ignorant of the rigid separation of divers people, who withdraw themselves from an able faithful ministry, as no ministry of Christ, and from their godly congregations as no Churches of Christ; because of some corruptions from which (through want of light, not love of the truth) they are not throughly cleansed. Against which practise we have ever witnessed.