A iustification of separation from the Church of England Against Mr Richard Bernard his invective, intituled; The separatists schisme. By Iohn Robinson.
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A iustification of separation from the Church of England Against Mr Richard Bernard his invective, intituled; The separatists schisme. By Iohn Robinson.
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Robinson, John, 1575?-1625.
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[Amsterdam :: G. Thorp],
Anno D. 1610.
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Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. -- Christian advertisements and counsels of peace -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Church of England -- Controversial literature.
Brownists -- Early works to 1800.
Congregationalism -- Early works to 1800.
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The first is taken from the first planting of that Church in S. Pauls* 1.1tyme, by vertue of which former calling, and constitution (sayth he) Rome* 1.2still remaynes the Lords people, as Israel did in the wildernes, notwithstanding her idolatry.
I do answer first, that Rome (as we now consider of it) was never* 1.3 the Lords called nor under his covenant, though a Church, or as∣sembly in that city (or it may be more then one) of saynts, were, and secondly, that though she were, yet is the covenant broken through her fornications, and impenitency in them, both on her part, and the Lords visibly, and she devorced long a goe, and her daughters in, and with her.