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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. 8. [4. Neither can you have any Church. Government but in your single Congregations, and that too Independent on all others.]
Answ. 1. Who is that long of? Is it not you that forbid it us?
2. But indeed we never desired to play the ⟨p. 56⟩Bishops in other mens Diocese: If we pretended to govern you, would you take it for our Orthodoxness? I think not. I would you were of the same Opinion, & I would the Pope were of the same Opinion, and would let other men alone, and exercise his Discipline over none that he hath nothing to do with. Baxter whom you name hath told you, that Bishop Usher profest his Judgment to him, that even Bishops in a Council (though they are there Governors of the Flocks, yet) meet not for Government of one another by Vote, or of other Bishops, but for Concord. And Grotius de Imp. sum. pot. hath showed you that Canons are not Laws but Agreements.
2. But indeed we never desired to play the ⟨p. 56⟩Bishops in other mens Diocess: If we pretended to govern you, would you take it for our Orthodoxness? I think not. I would you were of the same Opinion, & I would the Pope were of the same Opinion, and would let other men alone, and exercise his Discipline over none that he hath nothing to do with. Baxter whom you name hath told you, that Bishop Usher profest his Judgment to him, that even Bishops in a Council (though they are there Governours of the Flocks, yet) meet not for Government of one another by Vote, or of other Bishops, but for Concord. And Grotius de Imp. sum. pot. hath shewed you that Canons are not Laws but Agreements.