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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.
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.
Secondly, That Edification or the Public good is the end, rule and measure of these Prudential actions.
Secondly, That Edification or the Publick good is the end, rule and measure of these Prudential actions.
Thirdly, That in looking to this rule and end, you must not look only to your present Congregation or the present Age, but to all the Churches abroad, and to posterity.
Fourthly, That nothing here should be rashly done, but by great advise.