A27014:174
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. 4. And he addeth old speeches against Toleration, Universal intolerable Toleration: Wherein we lament his want of common sense or modesty.
1. If he would insinuate that we are for an Universal Toleration, because we preach when we have liberty and opportunity, What dealing is to be expected from such men? When he confesseth that we have been still against such a toleration? When we have almost twelve years ago, cried out, even to unmannerliness, that if possibly we might have been heard, to the Reverend Prelates, Cast not out so many in the necessities of the people? O drive not godly people from your Communion for nothing! If you can prove Crossing, and your Sacrament-kneeling lawful, with Subscriptions, Canonical-swearing to you, &c. yet all that think otherwise should not be excommunicated, or forbidden to preach Christs Gospel: We have Fornicators, and Drunkards, &c. enough to ⟨p. 66⟩excommunicate: O drive not upright conscionable Christians from your Churches! Force not Ministers to private preaching and sufferings, which will certainly occasion Sects, and open a door to you know what. And when we can no whit prevail, if these very men themselves shall say, that it is we that are for Universal Toleration, with what Forehead—
1. If he would insinuate that we are for an Vniversal Toleration, because we preach when we have liberty and opportunity, What dealing is to be expected from such men? When he confesseth that we have been still against such a toleration? When we have almost twelve years ago, cryed out, even to unmannerliness, that if possibly we might have been heard, to the Reverend Prelates, Cast not out so many in the necessities of the people? O drive not godly people from your Communion for nothing! If you can prove Crossing, and your Sacrament-kneeling lawful, with Subscriptions, Canonical-swearing to you, &c. yet all that think otherwise should not be excommunicated, or forbidden to preach Christs Gospel: We have Fornicators, and Drunkards, &c. enough to ⟨p. 66⟩