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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. We take your Warning: Independents, as you say, may over-reach us; Peoples inconstancy and weakness may frustrate much of our Labours; Quakers and Papists may deceive some; We add, And you and others may keep us after all in Poverty, and in Jails, for ought we know. And what of all this? Therefore preach not. Next say, Therefore be no Christians; Therefore damn your own souls, if your temptations be so great. No, Sir, But, therefore we will serve Christ the more resolutely, and trust him for our preservation and reward. The God whom we serve is able to deliver us: But if he will not, be it known unto you, that we will not cease to preach his Gospel, while we can, and we fear not being losers by him.
Sect. 4. We take your Warning: Independents, as you say, may over-reach us; Peoples inconstancy and weakness may frustrate much of our Labours; Quakers and Papists may deceive some; We adde, And you and others may keep us after all in Poverty, and in Jayls, for ought we know. And what of all this? Therefore preach not. Next say, Therefore be no Christians; Therefore damn your own souls, if your temptations be so great. No, Sir, But, therefore we will serve Christ the more resolutely, and trust him for our preservation and reward. The God whom we serve is able to deliver us: But if he will not, be it known unto you, that we will not cease to preach his Gospel, while we can, and we fear not being losers by him.
Sect. 5. But your Will seemeth to bear down your Experience, while you would tempt us, by the discouragements of Difficult Assembling, and the Peoples Poverty. Have those kept us from doing what we could till now? Will our Poverty be greater than you Conformists have made it? Have we served God about twelve years without one bit of the Levites portion? and cannot we do so till we die? There is an harmony in all your discourse: To tell us of the discouragement of Poverty from others,