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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. 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.
Sect. 5. pag. 16. Let Mr. Crofton answer for himself, but the other two named by you, Ball and Baxter have much against you, but nothing for you; and understand themselves better than you understand them; and he that surviveth, taketh himself to be abused by your Allegations, and provoketh you to cite any of his words, which are against Nonconformists preaching as they have opportunity. If you had rather that we were all used as Mr. Jos. Allein was, you may see by his Preface to his Life, whether he was not for such sufferings rather than silence.
Sect. 6. His reviving his pitiful Objection, That we have the approbation of Authority for separation, is but a contemptible sporting of himself at the game he is best skilled at; Objecting nothing, that he may seem to answer it with something.