A27014:115
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. 2. His first inconvenience is, that [We shall lay down the Cudgels and beg the peace, &c. of the rest of the Sectaries, as well as the Independents.]
Answ. A hard point to that Sect that is ⟨p. 52⟩Turba gravis paci, placidaeque inimica quieti; who know not how to lay down the Sworn. But if we have been at Cudgels, we mean not to live and die at a work so unsuitable to our Religion and our minds. Reproach not him that said [If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, live peaceably with all men] But if it be our dislike of Schism that are the Cudgels you mean, you are answered already. Pretend not to know our minds better than our selves. When were we against our own Preaching, as we had opportunity?
Answ. A hard point to that Sect that is ⟨p. 52⟩Turba gravis paci, placidaeque inimica quieti; who know not how to lay down the Sworn. But if we have been at Cudgels, we mean not to live and die at a work so unsuitable to our Religion and our minds. Reproach not him that said [If it be possible, as much as in you lyeth, live peaceably with all men] But if it be our dislike of Schism that are the Cudgels you mean, you are answered already. Pretend not to know our minds better than our selves. When were we against our own Preaching, as we had opportunity?