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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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6. Therefore go as oft as you can to his Congregation, and hold Communion personally with him, and lead the people with you. Do not say, Now we have opportunity to do better, it is unlawful to join with them that do worse: For though it be not lawful for you to neglect your own Duty and opportunity, it is lawful for you by Deed as well as Word, to show your Christian Concord and Communion: and so to do, may make it at that time much better which else in regard of the manner would be worse. Otherwise if one Preacher, pray and preach better than all the rest, all the people should be bound to forsake their Ministers & go to him as one that doth better. But bonum est ex causis integris: Disjunction and ill effects, ⟨p. 92⟩your better mode of Worship worse.
6. Therefore go as oft as you can to his Congregation, and hold Communion personally with him, and lead the people with you. Do not say, Now we have opportunity to do better, it is unlawful to joyn with them that do worse: For thoug it be not lawful for you to neglect your own Duty and opportunity, it is lawful for you by Deed as well as Word, to shew your Christian Concord and Communion: and so to do, may make it at that time much better which else in regard of the manner would be worse. Otherwise if one Preacher, pray and preach better than all the rest, all the people should be bound to forsake their Ministers & go to him as one that doth better. But bonum est ex causis integris: Disjunction and ill effects, ⟨p. 92⟩your better mode of Worship worse.
7. Therefore in Parishes where all may well hear the Parish Minister, I would not have you, without necessity, preach at the same hour as he doth, but at some middle time; that you may not seem to vie with him for Auditors, nor to draw the people from him; But let them go with you to hear him, and after come and hear you (or before;) But in London and great Parishes where all cannot come to the Parish Church, as also in Parishes where the Minister is not to be owned, I persuade you to no such observation: It is so inconvenient to the people there, to be cast upon unmeet hours, that I persuade you not to do it.