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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.
II. For your souls sake and for the Churches sake, Take heed of selfishness and Pride, lest it fill you with envy against your Brethren that serve the same Lord, when you think they any way diminish your reputation and honour. I would have others keep up your Reputation to the utmost; which in the name of God, I charge upon them; Yea, and in honour to prefer you: But if you think they do not, remember that you are the Servants of a Crucified Christ, who made himself of no reputation, but took upon him the form of a Servant, ⟨p. 123⟩and yet this way got a name above every name. As sure as you live, contending for honour, is one of the readiest ways to loose it, and giving it to others, and contemning it your selves, is one of the surest ways to get it, It is its motto, Quod sequitur fugio; quod fugit ipse sequor.
Self-esteem, and Pride is odious in all: but in a Minister of Christ more odious, than in any man: but never so odious as when it riseth to such malignity, as to envy or hinder the work of God, because another more esteemed doth it. It is a sin that I am readier to tremble to think of, than further to reprove.
Self-esteem, and Pride is odious in all: but in a Minister of Christ more odious, than in any man: but never so odious as when it riseth to such malignity, as to envy or hinder the work of God, because another more esteemed doth it. It is a sin that I am readyer to tremble to think of, than further to reprove.