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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. 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, ⟨p. 74⟩that would help us, were they able, when your Party hath so long kept us without a bit of Bread, but what Alms, or some mens own Stocks afforded them, is just like the rest. It sufficeth us to tell you, that we preach not for Riches, and we will not cease through Poverty. Talk at this rate to one another.
Sect. 6. When you say, that a Toleration may reduce the common sort to an indifferency in Religion.
I answer, Get your friends together then that have brought it to that pass, as that [It must be this or worse] and bring them to weep over their sins before God; That if a miserable Nation may not be saved from the Fire that you have kindled, your Souls yet if possible may be saved.