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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. 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.
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 Catholicks▪ In contradistinction from Hereticks, 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.
Sect. 2. As to the Point of Church-Government & Worship (the quarrel of the present age) 1. We easily confess that we are not all of a mind; which is no cause of alienation of affections, nor should be a cause of mutual persecutions; It being our judgment that Christians are to bear with one another in greater matters, than Episcopal, Presbyterians, Independents,