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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. As the Author honoureth himself with the praise of being a Lover of the Truth and Peace (which commendation all the contending parties, from the Papist to the Quaker are as ready to give themselves) so I hope I shall the easilier obtain his pardon, if (believing him) I shall prove that it is Truth and Peace which he opposeth. And if I offer him a better way to secure them; assuring him that I agree with him in his main design, to bring the Conformists and Non-conformists nearer, and to a more amicable concord in the Work of God, and not to drive any further from mutual Communion than they are.
CHAP. II.
The Nonconformists Resolutions, and the true State of the Case to be debated.
Sect. 1. BE it known to the Reader, that the name of Nonconformists was not made by our selves, but by others, (as the names of the four Confessors, Dan. 1. was). The Titles which we assume, as signifying our own professed Religion, are but these, our Religion is Christian, and no other; In opposition to dividing Sects we are Catholics In contradistinction from Heretics, we cleave to the Scripture as our Rule; In contradistinction from the Roman Schism and Corruptions we are Protestants, that is, we protest to cleave to simple Christianity, and to the Primitive purity and simplicity against their introduced Novelties and Vanities.