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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"A iustification of separation from the Church of England Against Mr Richard Bernard his invective, intituled; The separatists schisme. By Iohn Robinson." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10835.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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4 Use the present good which thou mayest enioy to the vtmost, andan experienced good before thou doest trouble thyselfe to seek for a supposed better good, vntryed, which thou enioyest not.
We must so enioy experienced good things, as we stock not our selves in respect of other things, as yet vntryed. We may not stint or circumscribe eyther our knowledg, or fayth, or obedience, with∣in streyter bounds then the whole revealed will of God, in the knowledge, & obedience wherof we must dayly encrease & edify our selves; much lesse must we suffer our selves to be stripped of any liberty which Christ our Lord hath purchased for vs, and given vs to vse for our good; Gal 5. 1.
And here (as I take it) comes in the ••ase of many hundreds in the Church of England, who what good they may enioy (that is safely enjoy or without any great bodily daunger,) that they vse very fully. Where the wayes of Christ ly open for them, by the authority of men, & where they may walk safely with good leave, there they walk very vprightly, and that a round pace; but when the commaundements of Christ are as it were hedged vp with thrones, by mens prohibitions, there they fowly † step a syde, and pitch theyr tents by the flocks of his fellowes.
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There are many in the land very zealous & severe in all the d••∣ties of the second table, and in the private and personal duties of the first table, and in such publick duties also as the times wil bear, and in those respects may say as Iehu did to Iehonadab, see the ze•••• which I have for the house of the Lord: but consider the same persons i•• their Communion, Leyturgy, Ministery and government, & there seemeth a most monstrous composition. These things in the same men do agree as ill as the Ark of God & Dagon in the same house. We ought in no case to share our service betwixt Christ and Anti∣christ, nor to stock ourselves in any the least parts of the revealed will of God, but must grow and increase in the whole body of obe∣dience, and all the parts thereof; otherwise (as in the naturall body if one part grow and not an other) the effect wilbe monstrous. E∣zek. 18. 11. 12. Iam. 2. 10. Deut. 8. 1.
The 5. 6. & 7. precept I pretermit: the 8. followeth.