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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.
CHAP. IX.
Of Inconvenience from our present Conformity.
Sect. 1.
HE next confesseth that [most of us have hitherto held some measure of Communion with the Church of England] And now [if we depart and fall quite away] (when we purpose to go no further from them, but rather come nearer if they will give us leave) then saith he [You will publish to the World, that your compliance ⟨p. 76⟩with us before the Toleration, was not out of sense of Duty, or love of Peace and Unity, or any other good end; but merely out of slavish fear of Punishment, &c.]
HE next confesseth that [most of us have hitherto held some measure of Communion with the Church of England] And now [if we depart and fall quite away] (when we purpose to go no further from them, but rather come nearer if they will give us leave) then saith he [You will publish to the World, that your complyance ⟨p. 76⟩with us before the Toleration, was not out of sense of Duty, or love of Peace and Unity, or any other good end; but meerly out of slavish fear of Punishment, &c.]