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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. 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, ⟨p. 8⟩and Anabaptists disagree in. And if any among us have done otherwise heretofore, it was from a Vice Homogeneal to that of the present Conformists, which now they smart for; and the Conformists may repent of in due time.
Sect. 3. We take not the name of Nonconformists to be such a Cothurnus or Hose drawn over the several parties by your prudence as shall make them one, or tie them closer together than Conformists and Nonconformists are. I pray you try, if you will not believe us, whether Papists or Quakers take us or you for their greater Adversaries. Remember how after the Fire of London the Papists in Print did court you as men much nearer unto them than we are, and much liker to befriend them. And I doubt you will never make them think otherwise. We take you for men of the same Religion with us, and much fitter for our Communion, than such Nonconformists as Papists and Quakers are.
Sect. 3. We take not the name of Nonconformists to be such a Cothurnus or Hose drawn over the several parties by your prudence as shall make them one, or tye them closer together than Conformists and Nonconformists are. I pray you try, if you will not believe us, whether Papists or Quakers take us or you for their greater Adversaries. Remember how after the Fire of London the Papists in Print did court you as men much nearer unto them than we are, and much liker to befriend them. And I doubt you will never make them think otherwise. We take you for men of the same Religion with us, and much fitter for our Communion, than such Nonconformists as Papists and Quakers are.