A27014:280
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.
Sixthly, If we must have new Creeds and ⟨p. 109⟩Church Articles as oft as Heretics misexpound the old, whether it be not in the power of the Devil and Heretics to make our Faith ridiculously alterable every year, till it grow intolerably voluminous?
Sixthly, If we must have new Creeds and ⟨p. 109⟩Church Articles as oft as Hereticks misexpound the old, whether it be not in the power of the Devil and Hereticks to make our Faith ridiculously alterable every year, till it grow intolerably voluminous?
Seventhly, And who is it that must be still the Creed-makers or menders? And where will they stop? And how shall we know when we have all?
Eighthly, Is he a wise Pastor, that readeth how the Churches have ever since the Council at Nice bin distracted with new Creeds, and yet will take no warning? Read how Hilary Pict. inveigheth against them. When they vexed Hierome himself with suspicions of Heresy about the Trinity, (because he was not for the term Hypostasis as a person) his answer was, They ask me of my Belief (or Faith) as if I had bin New-born (or Baptized) without a Belief: As if he should say, Is it not a true and sufficient Creed or profession of Faith, which we all make at Baptism? Why else are we Baptized?
Eighthly, Is he a wise Pastor, that readeth how the Churches have ever since the Council at Nice bin distracted with new Creeds, and yet will take no warning? Read how Hilary Pict. inveigheth against them. When they vexed Hierome himself with suspicions of Heresie about the Trinity, (because he was not for the term Hypostasis as a person) his answer was, They ask me of my Belief (or Faith) as if I had bin New-born (or Baptized) without a Belief: As if he should say, Is it not a true and sufficient Creed or profession of Faith, which we all make at Baptism? Why else are we Baptized?