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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. 7. But p. 18. he will bring us to Utopia (Morus invented it) and there he will suppose [the Villainies of Theft, Murder and Adultery unpunished, and public Meetings allowed where they should be practised.]
Sect. 7. But p. 18. he will bring us to Vtopia (Morus invented it) and there he will suppose [the Villanies of Theft, Murder and Adultery unpunished, and publick Meetings allowed where they should be practised.]
Answ. 1. What should the poor Nonconformists hear, if they thus Commented on the Clemency of the King?
2. But because you will force dumb men to speak, suppose that in the same Utopia, the Philosophy Schools which had faithful Teachers, and the Christian Churches that had faithful Pastors, were deprived of near 2000 of them at once, and those that came in their places, had the consent but of the least part of the people; and that they were such as did Doctrinally declare to the people that millions may be PER• without sin, & that they, ex animo, approve of all the Gregorian Liturgy, and every thing therein, and of all the Lutherans Consubstantiation, and Church-Images; and when in Baptism they had vowed to fight against the World, the Flesh, and the Devil under Christ, they should contrarily upon deliberation make a solemn public Covenant, that in their places, & callings, they would never endeavour to reform Cardinals, Inquisitions, High-places, Consubstantiation, Church-Images, or Church-tyranny, & so in part renounce their Baptism: And suppose a clement Prince should release the ejected Teachers from their restraints, and allow them to set up private schools of Philosophy and Divinity, and the people should say, We cannot in conscience cast our Souls on the guidance of the PER and therefore crave the benefit of your conduct: If these suffering men shall seek to reconcile them to the PIERCE