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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.
11. If there be any among your people, that by such a sinful unpeaceable zeal, will be censuring & deriding Conformists, Independents, Anabaptists, or any honest tolerable dissenters, and will be reproaching them behind their backs, and making them odious to the Hearers, rebuke them sharply, and cherish not their sin; And if they hear not, rebuke them before all, and if they amend not, cast them out of your Communion: and as you love your selves, the Church and others, let not the proudest censorious people be your Masters: Take heed of that base complying humour, that maketh some they dare not displease them, least they should call them as bad as they do the Conformists. For if you come to this, it is the Women and Boys that have least knowledge, and most proud censorious passions, that will be the Church Governors. Keep your Authority, let them take it how they will, and be not servile followers of the peoples errors and irregular ways.
11. If there be any among your people, that by such a sinful unpeaceable zeal, will be censuring & deriding Conformists, Independents, Anabaptists, or any honest tolerable dissenters, and will be reproaching them behind their backs, and making them odious to the Hearers, rebuke them sharply, and cherish not their sin; And if they hear not, rebuke them before all, and if they amend not, cast them out of your Communion: and as you love your selves, the Church and others, let not the proudest censerious people be your Masters: Take heed of that base complying humour, that maketh some they dare not displease them, least they should call them as bad as they do the Conformists. For if you come to this, it is the Women and Boys that have least knowledge, and most proud censorious passions, that will be the Church Governours. Keep your Authority, let them take it how they will, and be not servile followers of the peoples errours and irregular ways.
12. Possess your Hearers with true Gospel principles of Love, that they may be first pure, then peaceable and gentle. Preach zealously for Love, against love-killing envious zeal. Teach them to know that all men are imperfect ⟨p. 96⟩