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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
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Sect. 1. Fathers and Brethren, though I presumed to counsel the Non-Conformists as my equals, I will presume no higher with you, than to lay my self at your Feet, and humbly a second time to become your Petitioner for the souls of men, for the Gospel, the Church, and the interest of Christ. It is your Office to be Petitioners to mankind for Christ, and to beseech them in his stead to be reconciled to God. And a man might hope that one that should become a Petitioner to you, that your selves would not destroy that Church, might find acceptance and prevail. But Satan hath got so great advantage, that the wisest man living is uncapable of speaking rightly to you without offence. He that can draw men into great disgraceful sin, hath thereby raised a Bulwark to defend his work. To be silent and comply, is to be cruel to the sinner and himself, and who can do it that believeth Death and Judgement: To call men to repentance, is utterly to lose them by implying that they have sinned. O little did I once think that Repentance had bin so hard a work, when God offereth pardon of all other sins, against the Law of innocency, ⟨p. 119⟩on so low and reasonable a condition.
Sect. 1. FAthers and Brethren, though I presumed to counsel the Non-Conformists as my equals, I will presume no higher with you, than to lay my self at your Feet, and humbly a second time to become your Petitioner for the souls of men, for the Gospel, the Church, and the interest of Christ. It is your Office to be Petitioners to mankind for Christ, and to beseech them in his stead to be reconciled to God. And a man might hope that one that should become a Petitioner to you, that your selves would not destroy that Church, might find acceptance and prevail. But Satan hath got so great advantage, that the wisest man living is uncapable of speaking rightly to you without offence. He that can draw men into great disgraceful sin, hath thereby raised a Bulwark to defend his work. To be silent and comply, is to be cruel to the sinner and himself, and who can do it that believeth Death and Judgement: To call men to repentance, is utterly to lose them by implying that they have sinned. O little did I once think that Repentance had bin so hard a work, when God offereth pardon of all other sins, against the Law of innocency,