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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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1. God and our own consent at our Ordination, made our necessity of exercising our Ministry; We are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, nor that it was our choice: But God hath laid this necessity on us, and woe be unto us if we preach not the Gospel, as we have opportunity.
1. God and our own consent at our Ordination, made our necessity of exercising our Ministry; We are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, nor that it was our choice: But God hath laid this necessity on us, and wo be unto us if we preach not the Gospel, as we have opportunity.
2. The Bishops to some of us, and senior Pastors to others, by Ministerial Investiture imposed this necessity on us.
3. The great necessity of multitudes of fouls (which nothing but gross ignorance de facto, Infidelity, or Impudency can deny) concurreth to cause this necessity.
4. The Law imposeth a necessity on us, not to preach among you in the Temples: If then God say, Preach, and the Law say, Preach not in the Temples, we may conclude we must preach out of the Temples; if we have but as much wit as King James's Hounds had, that at a double way, if they find the Hare hath not gone one way, will take it for granted he is gone the other. Here is then but two makers of our necessity, the Imposer and the Restrainer; Reproach neither of them if you will take our council.