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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. We persuade none to separate from you.
2. We perswade none to separate from you.
3. Do you silence us, and depose us from the Ministry, and forbid Baptism and the Lords Supper to all that have not as wide a swallow as your selves, and then ask, Why separate you from us?
4. Do you draw Churches to your selves out of our true Churches that were before you, and then charge your act on us?
5. Why come not you to the private Churches among you that have all this while been kept up? e. g. In London, why may not Dr. Manton, Dr. Annesley, Dr. Jacomb, and abundance of such, as fairly charge those that go only to the Temples, for separating from them? They say, They are as true Churches as you. If their not hearing you is separation, why is not your not hearing of them so? Big words when men are got into the Saddle make not their Cause good.
5. Why come not you to the private Churches among you that have all this while been kept up? e. g. In London, why may not Dr. Manton, Dr. Annesley, Dr. Jacomb, and abundance of such, as fairly charge those that go only to the Temples, for separating from them? They say, They are as true Chuches as you. If their not hearing you is separation, why is not your not hearing of them so? Big words when men are got into the Saddle make not their Cause good.