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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.
1. That it must not be Thoughts but Words that do mischief in the Church; And Words are provable.
1. That it must not be Thoughts but Words that do mischief in the Church; And Words are proveable.
2. That such proud tyrannical overdoers, have bin the Churches undoers? And it is they that have done as much mischief as most Heretics: And that they that will be so much wiser and better than God, as to keep out all Heresy by their self-conceited ways, are the men that let in Heresy and Impiety, and keep or cast out faithful Pastors, and are the Officers and Agents of the great Divider and Destroyer of the Churches.
2. That such proud tyrannical overdoers, have bin the Churches undoers? And it is they that have done as much mischief as most Hereticks: And that they that will be so much wiser and better than God, as to keep out all Heresie by their self-conceited ways, are the men that let in Heresie and Impiety, and keep or cast out faithful Pastors, and are the Officers and Agents of the great Divider and Destroyer of the Churches.
Let me add, Brethren, we that have lived in an Age, when the Engines of Church-Division have so sadly prospered, and have smarted thereby, and born our Testimony against them, are doubly obliged to leave this Testimony of ours to Posterity to warn them, that if possible they may escape the snare; And therefore TO PUBLISH THIS OUR ⟨p. 111⟩JUDGEMENT, and OUR OWN CONCORD ON THESE PRIMITIVE TERMS to all the World, as against the Romish tyrannical-uncertain-confounding Church-dividing, and still growing Articles of Faith; Remembering that the same men that have made their Religion so big as that the French Impression of it (viz. their Councils) is too dear for the purse of a Non-conformable Minister; can yet tell you that even aith in Christ himself (explicit) is not absolutely necessary, at least to justification, and that the knowledge even of much of the Law of nature as well as of the Gospel may not be absolutely necessary, as Sancta Clara, Deus-Nat-Grat. Problem. 15. and 16. proveth out of the Schoolmen at large.