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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. By desiring to escape the penalty of the Laws.
Answ. Now you speak sense, we feel your meaning. It is a crime worthy the name of Schism, to desire to be unpunished, when you desire our punishment: We do not toto pectore telum recipere: What if you were for hanging and burning us? were it Tolerationism & Schism to be unwilling to be hanged or burnt? While we have such Ithacian Masters in our own Coats, blame us not to desire Toleration, and to thank the King for saving us from our Brethren.
Answ. Now you speak sense, we feel your meaning. It is a crime worthy the name of Schism, to desire to be unpunished, when you desire our punishment: We do not toto pectore telum recipere: What if you were for hanging and burning us? were it Tolerationism & Schism to be unwilling to be hang'd or burnt? While we have such Ithacian Masters in our own Coats, blame us not to desire Toleration, and to thank the King for saving us from our Brethren.
The penalty of poverty, and losing all Ministerial maintenance, we never escaped since you succeeded us: Yet God that bids us ask for our daily bread, would not have charged our desiring it, on us as our sin, if the Law had forbid it us. Poor Joseph Alleine and many another are gone, and did not escape the penalty: ⟨p. 69⟩I never heard that Bradford or Hooper, or Latimer were accused for desiring to escape penalty. Was it Josephs sin that the Ishmaelites and Egyptians were more merciful to him than his Brethren?
The penalty of poverty, and losing all Ministerial maintenance, we never escaped since you succeeded us: Yet God that bids us ask for our daily bread, would not have charged our desiring it, on us as our sin, if the Law had forbit it us. Poor Joseph Alleine and many another are gone, and did not escape the penalty: