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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. 5. Once more Reader, peruse all the Citations of this Author, out of Mr. Edwards, Mr. Trap (a Conformist, yet numbered with us) or the Jus Divinum Presbyterii (said to be written by Dr. Roberts, a Conformist;) only read them not with this Authors Spectacles or Eyes, and then tell me like a man of truth, whether thou dost believe that their meaning was, [An Universal Toleration is unlawful: Ergo, Presbytery must not be Tolerated, if any others get the power] or whether ever the Nonconformists said, [We are not to be Tolerated] or, Whether the Episcopal men told Cromwell in his Usurpation, [It is unlawful to tolerate us?] It is strange that any party who think themselves only or chiefly fit for Legal possession, should yet think themselves intolerable.
Sect. 5. Once more Reader, peruse all the Citations of this Author, out of Mr. Edwards, Mr. Trap (a Conformist, yet numbred with us) or the Jus Divinum Presbyterii (said to be written by Dr. Roberts, a Conformist;) only read them not with this Authors Spectacles or Eyes, and then tell me like a man of truth, whether thou dost believe that their meaning was, [An Universal Toleration is unlawful: Ergo, Presbytery must not be Tolerated, if any others get the power] or whether ever the Nonconformists said, [We are not to be Tolerated] or, Whether the Episcopal men told Cromwel in his Usurpation, [It is unlawful to tolerate us?] It is strange that any party who think themselves only or chiefly fit for Legal possession, should yet think themselves intolerable.
But if he talk of the Tolerating of others, that are indeed intolerable, let him talk to them that have to do with it; and let him first talk his friends into the tears of true Repentance (if they be not past learning) even from the greatest EXPERIENCE it self.