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A30189	An answer to two treatises of Mr. Iohn Can, the leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam the former called, A necessitie of separation from the Church of England, proved by the Nonconformists principles : the other, A stay against straying : wherein in opposition to M. Iohn Robinson, he undertakes to prove the unlawfulnesse of hearing the ministers of the Church of England ... / by the late learned, laborious and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, John Ball.	Ball, John, 1585-1640.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1642 (1642)	Wing B558; ESTC R3127	281,779	264

is bound to separate from that societie wherewith he is not permitted to hold communion in the worship of God without sinne and that a man cannot hold communion with the Church of England in the worship of God without sinne The first of these propositions is most true taught in Scripture which forbiddeth q Rom. 3.7 8. to doe evill that good may come thereof or r Iob 13.9 tell a lie for the glory of God and acknowledged by the learned of all sorts and professions whatsoever If the Church shall deny communion to any member because he will not approve the least sinne or acknowledge the least knowne errour for truth in that case the Church is schismaticall which doth cast out such a member and not the member which doth suffer himselfe injuriously to be cast out For God needs not my lie and by divine precept I am obliged not to allow against conscience what the Lord condemneth You need not therefore take such paines as you doe to prove the corruptions in our Booke of publique service to be so many in number or hainous in quality as you would make the world beleeve much lesse to straine your conscience in misreporting as you have done For if you can shew that by communicating in the ordinances of worship in that or any other societie or Church under Heaven we necessarily partake in sinne of what sort soever great or small either approving what is unlawfull or subscribing to an errour knowne so to be it will easily be granted that it is unlawfull to joyne in that communitie Be the s The good Kings of Judah were favoured and blessed of God for walking in the waies of David their Father and purging the Land from all sacrifices and ceremonies not prescribed by Moses Law Bils Christ subject part 1. p. 32. But if the Princes were remisse the people were not commanded to separate from the ordinances of worship corruptions few or many great or small if by communicating in the ordinances of grace in that societie I must necessarily partake in sinne small or great one or many my communicating is unwarrantable And let the abuses be many and great yet if I may be present at the true worship of God without sinne consent unto or approbation of such abuses or corruptions in voluntary separation I sinne against God his Church and mine owne soule withdrawing my selfe from the ordinances of grace the comfortable presence of Christ and the societie of his Saints without allowance or approbation from God to whom I owe my selfe wholly Your long Catalogue of corruptions to be found in our Liturgie is to small purpose unlesse you could prove some of them to be fundamentall hereticall and really idolatrous which you can never doe or that by communicating in the ordinances of grace we doe t Be the abuses never so palpable if the person be not authorized of God to reforme them or separate it is not Just or lawfull for private persons to attempt them For when Malefactors deserve to die it is not for private men to put them to death without the Magistrate Bilson Christ subject part 3. pa. 97. David committed adultery Salomon erected idolatry both offences being death by Gods law might the people therefore have David and Salomon to death approve such corruptions and then be they one or many great or small wee must not communicate in the ordinances with them Which if any man shall lightly beleeve he may know from whom but not whither to flie For there will be found no societie in the whole world whereunto a Christian might lawfully joyne himselfe and yours much lesse than many others You tell us very confidently that as zealous and judicious Nonconformists as ever held that cause affirme that a man cannot without sinne communicate in that worship where the Ceremonies are used But whether should a man admire more your impudency or vaine confidence herein Must not he mistrust you in every thing that shall consider how notoriously you lavish in this particular Is it not contrary to their profession protestation and practice Doe they not usually frequent the Congregations have they not written in maintenance and defence thereof who have cryed downe by conference preaching writing the neglect of Gods ordinances or the practice of separation more than they And yet you blush not to write that our Assumption is assented unto by as judicious and zealous Nonconformists as ever held that cause and they have brought good reasons for it First You quote Mr u Parker lib. 1. pag. 20 21. Parker That men must flie from Idols and Idolothites but men when they come to worship God in societies where the Ceremonies are used they doe not flie from Idols but draw neere unto them But if a man should have sought out a place of purpose to manifest your fraudulent and unconscionable alledging of mens words and sayings he could scarce have found a second more pregnant The whole passage in Mr Parker to which you send us I will set downe at large because it serves to cleere the matter in many particulars and all men may take the better notice of your fidelitie There is an Idoll more strictly taken saith he and an Idoll of larger sence which will include the Crosse For the better understanding whereof wee must borrow a distinction from the w Tho. Aqui. com in Epist ad Coloss c. 1. sect 4. Schoolmen by which a thing may be guilty of Idolatry Essentialiter participative and causaliter which our doctrine at * Hom. of Idolat par 1. pag. 4 5. home doth backe that is confirmed by act of Parliament affirming that to be an Idoll in Gods service which hath beene or is like to be worshipped What is worshipped by our selves that is an Idoll essentially what hath been worshipped or is now worshipped abroad by others that is an Idoll by participation what is likely to be worshipped that is an x August vet Testam qu. lib. 7. qu. 41. Idoll causing Idolatry in time to come In which sense Gideons Ephod may be termed an Idoll quedam modo and that it may be even before it was adored And hereby are many objections answered Our y Rainold de Idol lib. 2. ●ap 2. sect 2. Bilson Christ subject part 4. p. 321. Call you the Image of Christ an Idoll not unlesse it be worshipped but if it be then it is an Idoll and incense burnt unto it is Idolatrie Writers deny an Image in the Church say some to be an Idoll in case it be not worshipped True an Idoll essentially but as many of them as desire to have Images thrust out of the Church of which sort there be a great number they hold them guilty of Idolatry by participation and by occasioning or els why will they thrust them out A second objection is wont to be made If the signe of the Crosse be an Idol with us then must men separate from our Church and from