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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. Of Subjects to men in Office over them.
2. Of the younger to the Elder.
3. Of them that have less knowledge, to them that have more. For Office and Seniority are but formalities, did they not suppose an eximious fitness by Superior knowledge. If therefore God endow here and there one man with extraordinary judgement, it is the wisdom and happiness of the times to know him, and to kindle their Torches at his fire: So did one Luther, one Melanchthon, one Calvin, one Erasmus, one Jewel, Whitakers, Reignolds, Davenant, &c. profit many. You may go a hundred miles amongst the less judicious sort, and miss of that light which one Amesius •ne Camero, one Strangius, one le Blanch &c. could show the ⟨p. 116⟩world. And it is the Plague of corrupted nature that Ignorance keepeth men from knowing it self, and not one of a multitude (even of Religious men) who are injudicious will believe that they are injudicious; but every man is so much the more confident that he is in the right and others err, by how much the more he erreth himself: so that few ignorant Ministers are teachable, but think that they are too wise to learn, because by office they undertake to teach: But through Gods mercy, my own converse hath bin with an humble sort of Ministers, which was the occasion of our unity and peace. And London and the Country have many such, who I hope will be able to resist the dividing attempts of the self ignorant and self-conceited.
3. Of them that have less knowledge, to them that have more. For Office and Seniority are but formalities, did they not suppose an eximious fitness by Superior knowledge. If therefore God endow here and there one man with extraordinary judgement, it is the wisdom and happiness of the times to know him, and to kindle their Torches at his fire: So did one Luther, one Melanchthon, one Calvin, one Erasmus, one Jewel, Whitakers, Reignolds, Davenant, &c. profit many. You may go a hundred miles amongst the less judicious sort, and miss of that light which one Amesius ne Camero, one Strangius, one le Blanch &c. could shew the