The unreasonablnes of the separation made apparent, in an examination of, and answere to, certaine reasons of Maister Francis Johnson: whereby he laboureth to justifie his schisme from the church assemblies of England; By Maister VVilliam Bradshaw deceased. Together with a rejoinder, in defence of the said answere against the late reply of Maister Iohn Canne (a leader to a company of Brownists in Amsterdam) thereunto, by a freind [sic] of the deceased.

The first Argument.

It is a sin to separate from that ministery, which is set by Christ in his Church, for the worke of his ministery.

But such is the ministery of the Churchassemblys of England.

Therefore it is a sin to separate from it.

The proofes which he bringeth to confirme the maine proposition of his first Reason, will serve to proove this.

The assumption may be prooved thus:

The ministery of true pastors and teachers is the ministery which is set by Christ in his Church.

The ministery aforesaid is the ministery of true pastors and teachers. There∣fore,

It is a ministery set by Christ in his Church.

The proposition is his own.

The assumption I proove thus:

The ministery which hath in it all things essentiall to the office and calling of true pastors and teachers, is the ministery of true pastors and teachers.

But such is our ministery, therefore

It is the true ministery of true pastors and teachers. I think he is not so simple as to denie the proposition. The assumption is prooved thus.

To have such gifts as Christ ascended up into heaven to give for the worke of his ministery; to be outwardly called to that worke by such a Church, as professeth the fundamentall points of the Gospell; to instruct the people com∣mitted

to theire charge in the doctrine of the Law and Gospell, to administer unto them the holy Sacraments of Christ, and to be their mouth in prayer unto God, are all things essentially appertaining to the office of true pastors and teachers.

Such is the ministery of the Church-assemblys.

Therefore it is the true ministery of pastors & teachers.

If he deny the proposition, he must shew what other matters doe essentially appertaine unto their call••ng, which yet he hath not done.

For confirmation of the Assumption, it shal be sufficient, that we can set forth unto him such a ministerie insundry of our Church-assemblys, of which all these points may be truely verifyed, their conformity to the State, and theire sin therein (if any be) notwithstanding.