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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. 5. IV. And there are other Godly sober unwilling Conformists, who by the benefit of subscribing in their own sense, have stretched themselves to do what they have done; who conform on the terms of Mr. Sprint, submitting to what would else be evil, only to obtain the liberty of Preaching; (Far be it from me to put in any selfish ends.) Who are unwillingly Conformists, as the Westminster Assembly were, that after took down Prelacy.
Sect. 5. IV. And there are other Godly sober unwilling Conformists, who by the benefit of subscribing in their own sence, have stretcht themselves to do what they have done; who conform on the terms of Mr. Sprint, submitting to what would else be evil, onely to obtein the liberty of Preaching; (Far be it from me to put in any selfish ends.) Who are unwillingly Conformists, as the Westminster Assembly were, that after took down Prelacy.
Sect. 6. To all of them that yet have ears to hear, I humbly present these following Requests.
I. O be not too angry with those that censure you as sinners. I detest rash censoriousness: But you know men that differ in this world, about Speculatives, may differ about matters of Practice too: The Jesuists, Friars and Jansenists do so, in not a few or little things. And in such a difference, one party must needs censure the practisers of the contrary, as sinners. If you and I differed about Usury, Stage plays, Gaming, &c. one party must needs think that the other side do live in sin. And who liveth and sinneth not? Either the censure is true or false: If true, should you not be as thankful as to one that would save you from the Plague? Will sin do you less hurt than censure? If it be false, Consider