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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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10. Preach Faith and Repentance, the common Catechism principles, (which are of greatest need and use, and require the greatest skill in Preachers,) and do not on pretence of going higher, trouble the peoples heads with unnecessary things, nor turn them after vain janglings: much less against Conformity, or any thing that reflecteth upon the Parish Ministers. You may quickly kindle in your Religious Hearers, a factious opinionative kind of zeal, that shall make them fire-brands in the Church, and no whi• tend to save their souls. And you may deceive your selves by exercising such an opinionative zeal, while you think you are doing the work of Christ. O how happy had the Churches bin, if instead of all the Schoolmens & old contenders curiosities of the Trinity, and all the blind disputes of Predestination and Free-will, and all the bustle about Episcopacy, Presbytery, Independency, Anabaptistry, &c. the Churches had heard the Baptismal Covenant it self, with the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Dialogue well opened, and mens hearts had bin more fired with the love of God in Christ, rather than their heads heated with ⟨p. 95⟩such controversies, as the poor people cannot manage, but only by unskilful Teachers, are tempted by them to be disturbers of the Church.
10. Preach Faith and Repentance, the common Catechism principles, (which are of greatest need and use, and require the greatest skill in Preachers,) and do not on pretence of going higher, trouble the peoples heads with unnecessary things, nor turn them after vain janglings: much less against Conformity, or any thing that reflecteth upon the Parish Ministers. You may quickly kindle in your Religious Hearers, a factious opinionative kind of zeal, that shall make them fire-brands in the Church, and no whi• tend to save their souls. And you may deceive your selves by exercising such an opinionative zeal, while you think you are doing the work of Christ. O how happy had the Churches bin, if instead of all the Schoolmens & old contenders curiosities of the Trinity, and all the blind disputes of Predestination and Free-will, and all the busle about Episcopacie, Presbytery, Independency, Anabaptistry, &c. the Churches had heard the Baptismal Covenant it self, with the Creed, Lords Prayer, and D•alogue well opened, and mens hearts had bin more fired with the love of God in Christ, rather than their heads heated with