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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. 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.
Sect. 4. But we that suffer from you (Hear it now, for you shall hear it from God ere long,) all the Poverty, Confinements, Calamities, Silencings that have been inflicted on us, because we would not subscribe, say, swear, and do—you know what; can no more go against our Consciences, in Conforming to one another, than to you. Therefore you must not think that Episcopal, Presbyterian, ⟨p. 9⟩