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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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And why should we do it? Were we not as capable of the more Noble and General applause as you, if we could have taken your way?
As we are none of your Judges then, Be you none of ours, but let us with Resolved unity (though not uniformity) serve that one God whom we are all devoted to. Remember that to Preach Love is your Ministerial work; And to practice it is your Christian work. Resolve as much to maintain Christian Love as inviolate, even to Martyrdom, as the Martyrs did to maintain the Christian Faith. Remember Ridley and Hooper: You may come to Ridley's Confessions ere you die. We purpose not to Unminister you so much a• Gildas did his Britons, nor to separate from you so much as Martin did to the death, from all the Neighbour Synods and Bishops, for a far lesser cause than the silencing of eighteen hundred Ministers. We take not ⟨p. 134⟩you whom I now write to, to be consenting to this work. (Though your silence and non-resistance, hath bred such thoughts of you in people, as we would fain have you cure by the contrary means.) We are for peace: Be not you against it: But we cannot buy it, by deserting the Ministry, to which we were consecrated and devoted, nor by neglecting so many thousand miserable souls. Bring things in England once to that pass, that really our labour may be unnecessary, in the judgement of those that are not Infidels, Ignorants, or Malignant enemies of a holy life, and we will presently gratify all that desire our silence, or our banishment, and will not trouble men with needless work.
As we are none of your Judges then, Be you none of ours, but let us with Resolved unity (though not uniformity) serve that one God whom we are all devoted to. Remember that to Preach Love is your Ministerial work; And to practice it is your Christian work. Resolve as much to maintain Christian Love as inviolate, even to Martyrdom, as the Martyrs did to maintain the Christian Faith. Remember Ridley and Hooper: You may come to Ridley's Confessions ere you die. We purpose not to Unminister you so much a• Gildas did his Brittains, nor to separate from you so much as Martin did to the death, from all the Neighbour Synods and Bishops, for a far lesser cause than the silencing of eighteen hundred Ministers. We take not