A27014:104
Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…
Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated, against the reasonings of a confident questionist, in a book called Toleration not abused; with counsel to the nonconformists, and petition to the pious conformists / by one that is consecrated to the sacred ministry, and is resolved not to be a deserter of it ...Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated, against the reasonings of a confident questionist, in a book called Toleration not abused; with counsil to the nonconformists, and petition to the pious conformists / by one that is consecrated to the sacred ministry, and is resolved not to be a deserter of it ...
London : s.n., 1672
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Sect. 3. But he subtly tells us that the Declaration meddles neither with the Preceptive nor Punitive parts of the Law, but only with the Execution, which is extrinsic to both. All Lawyers must come learn anew of him, what it is to dispense with a Law. As if the Command [You shall examine and punish such & such men,] and the prohibition [You shall not punish them, but protect them] were not contrary. Nor the prohibition [You shall not meet above four &c.] and the dispensation, [You may meet, &c.]
Sect. 3. But he subtilly tells us that the Declaration meddles neither with the Preceptive nor Punitive parts of the Law, but only with the Execution, which is extrinsick to both. All Lawyers must come learn anew of him, what it is to dispense with a Law. As if the Command [You shall examine and punish such & such men,] and the prohibition [You shall not punish them, but protect them] were not contrary. Nor the prohibition [You shall not meet above four &c.] and the dispensation, [You may meet, &c.]
Sect. 4. But all this is utterly impertinent to them whose Consciences never allowed them to forbear their Ministry in formal obedience to any mens prohibition, but only when they had not power or opportunity to exercise; It's no duty which cannot be done. And ⟨p. 48⟩License maketh that possible which was impossible▪ He that untieth my feet, accidentally maketh it my duty to go.