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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. 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⟩Independent, and Anabaptists, will be ever the more of a mind for this Toleration. Till Reason change their Opinions, they will live according to their different Principles, though they love each other, and live in peace. And because you seem to be ignorant of their Principles and Purposes, I will tell you some of them, that concern the matter in hand.
Sect. 5. 1. They take a Ministry to be ordinarily necessary to the propagating of the Gospel & the saving of Souls, Rom. 10. 14, 15. Act. 20. 17, 18, &c. 2. They suppose that this Ministry doth not save men, as Wizards think that Charms do heal men, by their Presence, Titles, Names, or Habits; By standing in the Reading-place, or Pulpit, or being called the Parson of the Parish, or saying his set words over them when they are dead: But by such public and personal, frequent, plain, serious Instructions, as are suited to their ignorance security, presumption, hardheartedness, and love to sin; and such as in other cases would be thought fit to change mens minds and lives. 3. They suppose that when a well, commended Speech hath been said to ignorant impenitent people, one day in a week, without any personal familiar conference to set it home, and make it more intelligible, the most make but little more of it, than if it had been said to them in an unknown Tongue, or at least remain still ignorant and impenitent. Yea, if Forms of Catechisms