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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 thank God, I speak not my own case; I think those many Religious people that I have had the oversight of, are as ready to be ruled by me, and as undivided, as any that ever I have known? But alas, in too many places it is otherwise: Should the Ministers in London, that have suffered so long, but use any part of the Liturgy and Scripture Forms, though without any motive, but the pleasing of God, & the Churches good, what muttering and censuring would there be against them? And woe to those few Teachers that make up their designs by cherishing these distempers. One would think that their warning had bin fair. But—si nati sint ad bis perdendam Angliam—The Lord have mercy on us!
15. Seeing places and numbers and other Church-circumstances are matters left to humane prudence, be sure that you prudentially discern the diversity of duties, according to the diversity of places and occasions. These things I here include.
15. Seeing places and numbers and other Church-circumstances are matters left to humane prudence, be sure that you prudentially discern the divesity of duties, according to the diversity of places and occasions. These things I here include.
First, That you be not of those Church-tearers opinion, who must have all go just one way, in all those undetermined variable things; And will censure all, and take them for dividers, that do not as they do.