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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.
Brethren and Friends, I profess for your sincerity many of you are our joy, and it is not a little that we have done and suffered for your sakes; But I must tell you (for Adversaries will t•ll if you) that for your ignorance, injudiciousness, pride, self-conceitedness, you are our grief and shame. We are hit in the teeth with such self-wise ignorant giddy unpeaceable followers, And we have nothing to say, but to blush, and say that you mean well, and that it is not long of us. Can Gods Spirit which ordaineth Elders to be Pastors in his Church, be the Guide of your judgements, when with such shameless pride you set up your errors against the knowledge of your Guides? If you are wisest be you the Pastors, (which some are prone enough to arrogate.) It shameth us, it grieveth us, to see and hear from England, and from New-England this common cry. We are endangered by Divisions, principally because the self conceited ⟨p. 104⟩part of the Religious people, will not be ruled by their Pastors, but must have their way, and will needs be Rulers of the Church and them.
Brethren and Friends, I profess for your sincerity many of you are our joy, and it is not a little that we have done and suffered for your sakes; But I must tell you (for Adversaries will t•ll if you) that for your ignorance, injudiciousness, pride, self-conceitedness, you are our grief and shame. We are hit in the teeth with such self-wise ignorant giddy unpeaceable followers, And we have nothing to say, but to blush, and say that you mean well, and that it is not long of us. Can Gods Spirit which ordaineth Elders to be Pastors in his Church, be the Guide of your judgements, when with such shameless pride you set up your errours against the knowledge of your Guides? If you are wisest be you the Pastors, (which some are prone enough to arrogate.) It shameth us, it grieveth us, to see and hear from England, and from New-England this common cry. We are endangered by Divisions, principally because the self conceited ⟨p. 104⟩part of the Religious people, will not be ruled by their Pastors, but must have their way, and will needs be Rulers of the Church and them.