A26686:23
A call to Archippus
A call to Archippus, or, An humble and earnest motion to some ejected ministers (by way of letter) to take heed to their ministry that they fulfil it.
London : s.n., 1664
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But to prevent misunderstandings in what we say, we must be forced more than we would to lengthen, by premising a three-fold Caution.
We would not be so understood in any thing, as if we 1did undervalue the Sufferings of our most deserving Brethren, or were unthankful to God, or them, that they have so manfully stood for the TRUTH, and resisted the strong Temptations to sinful compliance, even to the ⟨p. 7⟩peril of their Families, the loss of Goods and Livelihood, and their beloved Employment amongst their dear People. We must, we do, and shall while we live, bless the Lord for this their Courage and Constancy; that they have kept the Word of His Patience, and have not denied His Name: And have born their public Testimony against the Corruptions of the times; though we are forced (with submission) to mind them, what pity it is, that they that did run so well, should not reach to the end of their race.
We would not be so understood in any thing, as if we 1did undervalue the Sufferings of our most deserving Brethren, or were unthankful to God, or them, that they have so manfully stood for the TRUTH, and resisted the strong Temptations to sinful compliance, even to the ⟨p. 7⟩peril of their Families, the loss of Goods and Livelihood, and their beloved Imployment amongst their dear People. We must, we do, and shall while we live, bless the Lord for this their Courage and Constancy; that they have kept the Word of His Patience, and have not denied His Name: And have born their publick Testimony against the Corruptions of the times; though we are forced (with submission) to mind them, what pity it is, that they that did run so well, should not reach to the end of their race.