A26686:32
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
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Whether a great part of your Flocks will not be 1in extremest danger to run wild to Seducers, and despisers of Government, †if you do not step in: evident it is that somewhere they must & will hear; and for the formal Pharisees, or profane Hophnies, these they will never be induced to sit down under. What then will be the consequence, but that they will be under strongest temptations, to run to the Tents of Erroneous Teachers, and (to their great peril) lend their ears to the instruction that causeth to err from 3the words of knowledge. Experience writes a sad Probatum est to what we say in this; of which how mischievous the issue may be, we leave you to consider. Yea, judge your own selves, we beseech you, whether false Teachers will not have a fairer advantage than ever, to get in with our People, and glory over our Ministry and Churches, if they be ready and forward in hazarding themselves among their parties, when ours only shall decline their Flocks and Labours, as soon as times grow perilous?
Whether a great part of your Flocks will not be 1in extreemest danger to run wild to Seducers, and despisers of Government, †if you do not step in: evident it is that somewhere they must & will hear; and for the formal Pharisees, or prophane Hophnies, these they will never be induced to sit down under. What then wil be the consequence, but that they wil be under strongest temptations, to run to the Tents of Erroneous Teachers, and (to their great peril) lend their ears to the instruction that causeth to er from 3the words of knowledge. Experience writes a sad Probatum est to what we say in this; of which how mischievous the issue may be, we leave you to consider. Yea, judge your own selves, we beseech you, whether false Teachers will not have a fairer advantage than ever, to get in with our People, and glory over our Ministry and Churches, if they be ready and forward in hazarding themselves among their parties, when ours onely shall decline their Flocks and Labours, as soon as times grow periloas?