A27014:217
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.
Answ. 1. We will not reflect by recrimination, because we would not provoke you more than needs.
2. As far as I can promise, we will judge of you no worse than we have done, nor deny any Communion with you which we have used, and can use without neglecting our own work. As I constantly join in my Parish-Church in Liturgy and Sacraments, so I hope to do while I live (if I live under as honest a Minister,) at due times. But what if I had leave without Conformity to preach in the next Parish-Church? I cannot then be in yours at the same time. He that preacheth not, may hear you constantly: But he that may preach himself, must not cease his Ministry, to be still one of your Flock. We long ago published our Judgments, that It is a sin not to join with a less-worthy Minister, and a less-orderly Mode of Worship, when we can have no better; And that it is a sin to tie our selves ordinarily to such when we may have better lawfully, that is (consideratis considerandis) upon terms whereon it will not do more hurt than good. You see then on what terms we may vary our practices, without the crimes recited by you. ⟨p. 77⟩If now when we are preaching our selves, you will say that we are departing from you, (because we cannot be in two places at once), and then come on with all these Calumnies, we take but this to be your meaning;
2. As far as I can promise, we will judge of you no worse than we have done, nor deny any Communion with you which we have used, and can use without neglecting our own work. As I constantly joyn in my Parish-Church in Liturgy and Sacraments, so I hope to do while I live (if I live under as honest a Minister,) at due times. But what if I had leave without Conformity to preach in the next Parish-Church? I cannot then be in yours at the same time. He that preacheth not, may hear you constantly: But he that may preach himself, must not cease his Ministry, to be still one of your Flock. We long ago published our Judgments, that It is a sin not to joyn with a less-worthy Minister, and a less-orderly Mode of Worship, when we can have no better; And that it is a sin to tye our selves ordinarily to such when we may have better lawfully, that is (consideratis considerandis) upon terms whereon it will not do more hurt than good. You see then on what terms we may vary our practices, without the crimes recited by you.