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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. 3. He would next raise a suspicion, [That our Principles change with the times,] and yet saith [It is a thing not easily observed in us in any thing else;] Condemn not your self then by suspecting it in this, till you better know our minds: [Or else, which is worst of all, that our interest lay at the bottom, and was the only Spring and Wheel of our zeal, and all our motions, &c]
Answ. Who had been the more accusable of this Carnality and Hypocrisy, in the eyes of any standers by, the Conformists that take up the Principles that go along with Safety, Wealth, Preferments and Dignities? or the Nonconformists, that have near ten years been deprived of all Ecclesiastical maintenance? some lived in extreme poverty, and some lain in Jails, &c. Sure, if we accuse not you, even ⟨p. 53⟩you, of hypocritical following carnal interest, one would think a little modesty might have cured the Canker that moved these suspicions or accusations of us, either as to these or former Opinions. But my expectation of modesty, I see by the following words, needs a pardon.
Answ. Who had been the more accusable of this Carnality and Hypocrisie, in the eyes of any standers by, the Conformists that take up the Principles that go along with Safety, Wealth, Preferments and Dignities? or the Nonconformists, that have near ten years been deprived of all Ecclesiastical maintenance? some lived in extream poverty, and some lain in Jails, &c. Sure, if we accuse not you, even ⟨p. 53⟩you, of hypocritical following carnall interest, one would think a little modesty might have cured the Canker that moved these suspicions or accusations of us, either as to these or former Opinions. But my expectation of modesty, I see by the following words, needs a pardon.