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,…

And it is not the least evil consequent, that we shall cherish not only the Error of those that think worse of the Parish-Worship & Assemblies than there is cause; but we shall also accidentally nourish their pride, who will think themselves a holier people, because they Erroneously over-censure the persons and practices of others. 7. The prime great obligation for the cure of all this, doth Isle upon some of the conforming side; It were easy for them, not to silence Christs Ministers that are as wise and good as themselves. It were easy for them, not to punish a godly person so heavily as an Excommunication comes to, for the weakness of scrupling a Sacrament-gesture; and not to punish their Children with being unchristened, or themselves with Excommunication, who think the dedicating Image of the Cross unlawful, or think it their own duty to enter their own Children into the Covenant of God, rather than Godfathers that have no ⟨p. 21⟩propriety in them, and they are sure never intend to take them for their own, or use them as they covenant to do. 8. If on such occasions, true godly Christians are cast out of their Parish-Churches, whether they err or not, all Ministers are neither obliged, nor allowed to desert them, and so to add cruelty and affliction to the afflicted. 9. They that think they answer all by saying that these peoples scruples are but Errors, do but 1. Show their self-esteem, who can call that Error which they have said so little to prove to be so (in some of their instances.) 2. And he talketh neither like a Pastor nor a Christian, nor a Man, that thinketh all that err should be cast out of the Church. 10. To discern whether in this case a distinct Church is to be gathered or not, is a work of mere Christian prudence and must be determined by comparing the good and evil consequences together, and discerning truly which preponderateth. And he that through Imprudence misjudgeth either way, doth sin. 11. Therefore it is folly, and sin for Ministers (Conformable, or Nonconformable) to expect that in this, all should go the same way, and to censure those that differ from their Opinion, when they may be under different circumstances. 12.

And it is not the least evil consequent, that we shall cherish not only the Error of those that think worse of the Parish-Worship & Assemblies than there is cause; but we shall also accidentally nourish their pride, who will think themselves a holier people, because they Erroniously over-censure the persons and practices of others. 7. The prime great obligation for the cure of all this, doth Ile upon some of the conforming side; It were easie for them, not to silence Christs Ministers that are as wise and good as themselves. It were easie for them, not to punish a godly person so heavily as an Excommunication comes to, for the weakness of scrupling a Sacrament-gesture; and not to punish their Children with being unchristened, or themselves with Excommunication, who think the dedicating Image of the Cross unlawful, or think it their own duty to enter their own Children into the Covenant of God, rather than Godfathers that have no