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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

word which doth ordinarily beget men unto God ought to bee heard yet wee cannot conclude on the contrary the word which doth not ordinarily beget is not to bee heard For the word is but a morall cause or instrument of faith and repentance whereby the Spirit worketh not necessarily but at pleasure If therefore the Spirit worke by the word as his instrument it is of God and wee are bound to heare it But if God worke not by it effectually to saving conversion it is of him notwithstanding So this affirmative is true sinne deser●eth death but this negative will not follow on the contrary good works deserve life For of justice death is due to the sinner as his wages but eternall life is the gift of grace The Papists argue thus Disgrace done to an Image tendeth to dishonour God and therefore by the Rule of Contraries Honour done to an Image tendeth to the honour of GOD. Their inference and yours turne both upon the same hinges And I might truly say unto you in your owne words Ibid. Have you not here shewed your selfe an acute disputer for to pull downe Bethel you build Babell to condemne the true hearing of Gods Word you commend Idolatry Consider therfore your owne reasons and be not so rash and hastie to disgrace your brethren Your obscure translating of Philosophicall Canons CAN. Stay Sect. 2. pag 54. CAN. Stay Sect. 9. pag. 100. I will passe over as Relata sunt simul natura which you English thus Relations in nature are alike and apply it as strangely Qualis causa tale causatum you translate thus As is the cause so that which is caused of the doing of the thing Idem qua idem semper facit idem which you render As is the same so alwayes followes the same effect whereby you turne principles or Canons at least into riddles and it is hard to say whether your interpretation bee more obscure or misapplication unreasonable to speake in your language as vaine as ever man made For that which is spoken of causes univocall necessary and proper at least that you referre to morall instruments as if the word preached by wicked instruments might not bee effectuall or a man could not heare an ungodly Minister preach the Gospell but he must partake in his sin CAN. Stay Sect. pag. Sect. 3.16.17 Id. Sect. 4. pag. 28. sect 5. p. 40. sect 1. p. 49. sect 4. p. 62.63 67 72 73 74 75. You are large in proving what is not questioned as that God must bee served as he hath appointed That it sufficeth not to intend a good end but the meanes must bee lawfull That men must not bow their knees to an Idol under pretence that they reserve their hearts unto God That wee must bee earnest and zealous against Idolatry That the matter of worship must be grounded on the word Consciences shall never find any sure port to run unto but only God Calf p. 22. and that it must be done in a right and lawfull manner order form or way That the law of God is the rule of conscience That custom must not prescribe against truth That we must not doe evill that good may come thereof with other the like which you know well your Opposites do believe and maintaine But that God is not worshipped in our assemblies as he hath appointed That to heare the word preached in our congregations is pernicious Idolatry that the means therein be unlawfull that the ministerie is Idolatrous or the worship vaine that you prove not either by Scripture or any learned approved Author whatsoever you bring in both your bookes to this purpose besides your own peremptorie actions may be shut up in few words The Authors which you quote are oftimes abused you mangle their words and make them seeme to speak what they never meant or intended CAN Stay sect 3. p. 57. The truths they teach you say speaking of the Ministers of the English Church are from God but the office which gives them power and charge to speake them is from Antichrist and a speciall character or marke as the learned write of the beast Simon on Rev. pag. 120. Acts Mon. edit 5. pag. 588. On Rev. ca. 14.9 Though Priests Deacons for preaching Gods word ministring the sacramets with provision for the poor bee grounded on Gods law yet have these sects no manner of ground thereof L. Cobh Act. and Mon. p. 514 5●5 Thus said Iohn Chaydon a Martyr of Christ The Bishops licence to preach the Word of God is the true character of the beast that is of Antichrist The like M. Bale and others But no word sounding that way is to be found in M. Simons Since their law of Confirmation was made saith hee the Bishop with the Chrisme doth signe the partie in the forehead with the character of the crosse And since they made their new office or sacerdotall thus they make their cate chumine The child or partie is brought to the Church doores where the Priest maketh a crosse with his thumb on the forehead of the childe and at the font the priest maketh a crosse in the right hand of the child c. Thus this Author but to your purpose not one word M. Bale was so farre from condemning the office of Bishops simply as Antichristian that hee himselfe was Bishop of Osyris in Ireland And how likely it is then that he should absolutely condemne a Bishops licence to preach the Gospell of Jesus Christ in the Churches of Christ as the mark and Character of the beast let any man judge What he might condemn in some respect and consideration in popish bishops as they stand sworne slaves to that Antichrist of Rome that cannot be drawn to the testimonie of Bishops CAN Neces of separ p. 25● who have cast off the authoritie and renounced the doctrine of Antichrist And the same may bee answered to the testimonie of John Ch●ydon You many times repeate that upon the Nonconformists grounds to returne unto the service in the Church of England is to joyne with Idolaters in Idolatry This no doubt is a vehement accusation if it can be proved if it be rashly surmised then it is as pestilent a slander But ground out of the Nonconformists for such conclusions you have shewed none nor once take notice of that which is alledged to the contrarie which you could not but see if you could have found any exception against it They doe not deny but there is a visible Church of God in England and therefore your saying of them that they doe almost in plaine and flat tearmes say that we have not so much as any outward face and shew of the true Church argueth that you have almost no love in you which upon one word once uttered contrary to the tenour of their booke T.C. repl 1. p. 8. Vnreasonab of separation p. 81. and course of their whole life surmise this of them Thus a chiefe Nonconformist

his Church howsoever it may in some particular parts of the execution happily bee defective in some places The ordinarie ministerie of our Church is the ordinarie and perpetuall Ministerie given by Christ to his Church Id pag. 10. and such as the Princes of the earth are bound by Gods law to protect and maintaine And if there be any corruption in and about the same which they ought to abolish it is accidental or personall Page 8. and not essentiall to destroy the true nature of the ministerie of God And though it should be granted that our people stand under some kinde of observances and offices which in their own nature and first originall are in some kind Antichristian yet such a manner of standing cannot be said to overthrow though it somewhat staine the Ministery of Christ Thus is the substance of the answer throughout the booke CAN Neces of Separ p. 216 217. But how doe you confute or take away this distinction or weaken the force of this answer That you doe not once assay by Scripture or sound reason but you cry out of shifts and trifling and contradictions beggerly I say●s or ifs base maintenance of the vilest abominations and justification of corruptions generally condemned by the same carnall and corrupt reasons which the Prelates use to doe That it serves to strengthen the hands of the wicked Id. pag. 220. grieve the hearts of the righteous and to discover his owne vile halting and double dealing The dumb dogs caterpillars and idle bellies never had a better proctor than this man to pleade for their unlawfull standing For he saith The Magistrate is bound to protect their Ministerie But how can wee believe him seeing the Nonconformists teach otherwise The rest of your answer is of the same marke which for shame I will not stand to confute You say any one may see by his worke Page 22● that he meant not to tye his conscience short but would make a little bold with it or the present and so he might fetch over a sure blow upon us He cared not though with every stroke hee made wounds through the sides of his brethren But if you be able bring forth one sentence wherein the indifferent may see that hee hath made bold with his conscience or made the least wound in the side of any brother wherein he hath contradicted himselfe or the nonconformists justified any abomination pleaded for any corruption or spoken one word in defence of dumbe dogs caterpillars or idle bellies And if you cannot do this let the indifferent judge whether you have not offered violence to your conscience and made bold to wound your soule that you might defame the Ministerie of the Gospell and slander the gifts of God in his servants This practice is Antichristian borrowed from the vilest bondslaves of that man of sinne if not from Satan himselfe But I will not defend the Treatisers opinion nor trouble my selfe further to examine your answer to Master Br. That which I am to enquire into is How you prove all the Ministers of the Church of England in respect of their office and standing to be false Prophets or Antichristian If ought can be found to this purpose bare words excepted CAN Stay sect 12 pag. 119 120. If an unlawfull outward calling make an unlawfull Minister then it makes a false Prophet For according to the Scriptures it is all one thing only expressed in divers terms c. We know no meane betweene true Prophets and false for whosoever is not a true Prophet is a false Prophet Id. p. 121. and whosoever is a false Prophet cannot be a true Prophet of God He that is of God is a true Prophet he that is of the Devill is a false Prophet neither doth the deliverie and utterance of some truths make him a true Prophet for then the Devill should be a true Prophet who sometimes speakes the truth albeit to a sinister end Balaam was a very witch a wizard a false Prophet a true sorcerer famous or rather infamous for his Divellish magick which he practised among the wicked idolatrous nation So Attersol and many others so too as Junius Simpson Ferus Canutus and before them Origen Greg. Nazianzene Basil ANSWER As for Balaam whether he were a Witch Wizard or Magician it is not materiall to the point in hand If the Treatiser did put that instance amisse it will not follow that you have truly proved the Ministers of the Church of England to be false Prophets or soundly confuted what hee answered for himselfe And if the Treatisers friends be of your disposition you may soone heare from them that you have answered nothing for you have brought the sayings and opinions of men but reason out of the Scripture you have alledged none to prove him simply a Witch and a false Prophet And if the opinions and sayings of men will serve the turne there bee some that have thought Balaam to be a Prophet of God Tertul. cont Marc. lib. 4. Numb 22.19 2● 7 Iosh 13.22 Sept. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Trem. Iun Divinum id est qui divinat and that for reasons not to be disregarded Tertullian amongst others thought Balaam to be a true Prophet and such a Prophet as should be numbred among the servants of God because he professeth that he would aske counsell of God and that he would speake nothing but what God should say unto him And he doth not only say so but indeed he propoundeth those things which he had received of God and which consent with truth and pietie In Scripture he is called a Diviner which word is sometimes used in a good sense to note one that doth prophesie true things or wisely and truly divine things to come Prov. 16.10 Sept. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In. Sagac Pisc Divinatio i.e. quasi divina●io hoc est sogatitas qualis est divinantium Mercer in Prov. 16.10 Isaia 3.3 Iun. Sagacem Pisc Heb. Divinatorem sed hic accipitur in bonam par●em Sept. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conjectorem Hieron ariolum Dovvay Southsayer Moller 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est qu●d hoc loco in bonampartem accipitur Car. in Prov. 16.10 quidem frequentissimè in Scriptura usu patur in malam partem pro his qui artibus Diabo●i●is abdita rimantur sed aliquando etiam ut Isa 13. Ezek. 13.6 usurpatur in bonam partem pro his qui aliquid a●cani proponunt quod legitimè vel revelatione divinâ vel solerti mvestigatione assequuti sunt Divination or a wise sentence is in the lips of Kings The Judge and the Prophet the Diviner and the old Man The Prophets divine for silver Mic. 3.11 Sept. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Num. 27.7 Sept. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vulg. precium divinationis 2 Per. 2.15 Numb 23.27 See Rainold censur praelect 201 B. Hieron alibi nullam illustriorem de advent●● Domini extare prophetiam dicit sci