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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.
but when the Egyptian Holy Monks would show their humble pride and ignorance, by tumults and zealous madness, to seek the blood of the Bishops, that believed not that God had Hands and Feet like Men, and to destroy those as ungodly that were not as foolish as themselves, what could have bin more scandalous against the honour of Godliness and Christianity?
but when the Egyptian Holy Monks would shew their humble pride and ignorance, by tumults and zealous madness, to seek the blood of the Bishops, that believed not that God had Hands and Feet like Men, and to destroy those as ungodly that were not as foolish as themselves, what could have bin more scandalous against the honour of Godliness and Christianity?
3. Over value not your own Preaching▪ and under value not other mans, because they are Conformists. The number and necessities of the ignorant and ungodly indeed do make your labours necessary, were you less fit than many of the Conformists: but that proveth you not more able, or your preaching better than theirs. Partiality may make some of your own mind, think all well that you say, and all weak that others say: but the rest of men ⟨p. 88⟩will the more despise you. Be not wise in your own conceit; Look not every man at his own gifts and worth, but at the gifts and worth of others: In honour prefer one another: Pride is the first born of the Devil: and pride of knowledge and goodness is more common and pernicious, than pride of Comeliness, Wealth, or Greatness. Mark that Preacher Conformable or Non-conformable, who striveth hardest for his own honour, and would raise it by dishonouring others, and is most impatient of all that cloudeth him, and is only for those that set him up; and look out no further for a mark of badness, but take that man for one of the worst, how well soever he preach or pray. Except Christs Apostles had bin converted to the teachable humble state of little Children, they could not have entered into the Kingdom of Heaven, Math. 18. 3