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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.
I know two Churches so near that the people may hear each other, and yet they are two, and therefore one is separate: And I pray, which of them is it? It may be all in England save Canterbury, or rather ⟨p. 71⟩Glastonbury, are Separatists, for separating from the first Church: As if Pythagoras justly cursed the number of two, because it was the first that durst depart from unity; and all Churches in the World were Separatists except Jerusalem.
I know two Churches so near that the people may hear each other, and yet they are two, and therefore one is separate: And I pray, which of them is it? It may be all in England save Canterbury, or rather ⟨p. 71⟩Glastenbury, are Separatists, for separating from the first Church: As if Pythagoras justly cursed the number of two, because it was the first that durst depart from unity; and all Churches in the World were Separatists except Jerusalem.
I pray you Sir, tell me, What if a Tolerated Presbyterian should read the Common-prayer in his Church, and use all your Ceremonies (though he fear Perjury, and Lying, and Violating his Baptismal Vow): were this a Schismatic or not? If yea; Then so is every neighbour Parish-Minister, or Chapel Curat. If not; than it is not a distinct Congregation that maketh Separatists. And then what if he do not use the Liturgy; doth that make a Separatist? Were you all Separatists that used it not fifteen years ago?
I pray you Sir, tell me, What if a Tolerated Presbyterian should read the Common-prayer in his Church, and use all your Ceremonies (though he fear Perjury, and Lying, and Violating his Baptismal Vow): were this a Schismatick or not? If yea; Then so is every neighbour Parish-Minister, or Chappel Curat. If not; than it is not a distinct Congregation that maketh Separatists. And then what if he do not use the Liturgie; doth that make a Separatist? Were you all Separatists that used it not fifteen years ago?