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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.
17. Be sure that the Concord of all the true Protestant Non-Conformists Churches, be established upon the simple ancient Catholic terms, and not upon any self-devised Additions: That is, that all that own the Scripture in general, and the Baptismal Covenant, the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Decalogue in particular (as the summary of Holy Belief, holy Desires, and holy Practice,) be taken for fellow Christians, till it be proved against them that by Heresy or wickedness they nullify this profession. This is the Rule and Test of universal concord. Here all agree: And if after this one Church will use Forms of Prayer, and another will not, one will Baptize Infants, and another will delay it, &c. they are differences that must be born, where Love and Reason cannot heal them, without breach of Charity, Concord or Communion; yea in the same Church, such different opinions may be born, further than as those that dissent from the Pastors mode of worship, will separate themselves when none rejecteth them. We have all naturally a Pope born in us, and when men have never so much talked against ⟨p. 108⟩Popery and Prelacy, too many censure or run away from all that are not of their way.
17. Be sure that the Concord of all the true Protestant Non-Conformists Churches, be established upon the simple ancient Catholick terms, and not upon any self-devised Additions: That is, that all that own the Scripture in general, and the Baptismal Covenant, the Creed, Lords Prayer, and Decalogue in particular (as the summary of Holy Belief, holy Desires, and holy Practice,) be taken for fellow Christians, till it be proved against them that by Heresie or wickedness they nullifie this profession. This is the Rule and Test of universal concord. Here all agree: And if after this one Church will use Forms of Prayer, and another will not, one will Baptize Infants, and another will delay it, &c. they are differences that must be born, where Love and Reason cannot heal them, without breach of Charity, Concord or Communion; yea in the same Church, such different opinions may be born, further than as those that dissent from the Pastors mode of worship, will separate themselves when none rejecteth them. We have all naturally a Pope born in us, and when men have never so much talkt against ⟨p. 108⟩Popery and Prelacy, too many censure or run away from all that are not of their way.