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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.
I prescribe to no man; and toleration so far taketh off public Impositions, as that none can now say, This Form is imposed on me, and therefore unlawful. But (though I will not bind my self) I here tell the world, That if my strength and toleration, and a call should ever more give me opportunity for the free exercise of mine Office, I would sometimes pray freely without Forms, and sometimes use some part of the common Liturgy, and sometimes use the Reformed Liturgy, which in 1660. was agreed on by the Commissioned Non-Conformists, (though being done in extreme hast, it should be reviewed and perfected:) I would ordinarily pronounce the Creed, (as the Faith which the Church Assembleth in the profession of,) and ordinarily recite the Lords Prayer and Decalogue, and read two Chapters and the Psalms: And they that would not join in this way of Worship, should freely go choose them a Teacher more agreeable to their opinions: for I would not serve the humours of any in their dividing errors.
I prescribe to no man; and toleration so far taketh off publick Impositions, as that none can now say, This Form is imposed on me, and therefore unlawful. But (though I will not bind my self) I here tell the world, That if my strength and toleration, and a call should ever more give me opportunity for the free exercise of mine Office, I would sometimes pray freely without Forms, and sometimes use some part of the common Liturgy, and sometimes use the Reformed Liturgy, which in 1660. was agreed on by the Commissioned Non-Conformists, (though being done in extream hast, it should be reviewed and perfected:) I would ordinarily pronounce the Creed, (as the Faith which the Church Assembleth in the profession of,) and ordinarily recite the Lords Prayer and Decalogue, and read two Chapters and the Psalms: And they that would not joyn in this way of Worship, should freely go choose them a Teacher more agreeable to their opinions: for I would not serve the humours of any in their dividing errours.
And Brethren, endure me to tell you,