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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.
And if we had expected that heretofore you had Petitioned our Rulers, for the liberty of our Ministry, it had bin no unreasonable expectation. All knew that our own Petitions had no hope: Ministers should of all men have bin most sensible of the Churches breaches, loss and danger, and most compassionate of the peoples souls: If you had but humbly acquainted our Rulers, That all our labours conjoined are too little; that you needed our help, and the ignorant our teaching; That your own judgement was, that our Ministry was more necessary than our personal Conformity,
And if we had expected that heretofore you had Petitioned our Rulers, for the liberty of our Ministry, it had bin no unreasonable expectation. All knew that our own Petitions had no hope: Ministers should of all men have bin most sensible of the Churches breaches, loss and danger, and most compassionate of the peoples souls: If you had but humbly acquainted our Rulers, That all our labours conjoyned are too little; that you needed our help, and the ignorant our teaching; That your own judgement was, that our Ministry was more necessary than our personal Conformity,
1. You know not but you might have bin heard: For no doubt our Rulers thought they did that which the Reverend Church-men ⟨p. 136⟩did advise or think best: I hope you do not think that our civil Rulers would have done all that they have done against us, if it had bin against the Bishops and conformable Clergies judgment and advise: Civil Governors are never so cruel in matters of Religion, as the Ruling and exasperated Clergy are, as the Histories of all ages testify.
1. You know not but you might have bin heard: For no doubt our Rulers thought they did that which the Reverend Church-men ⟨p. 136⟩did advise or think best: I hope you do not think that our civil Rulers would have done all that they have done against us, if it had bin against the Bishops and conformable Clergies judgment and advise: Civil Governours are never so cruel in matters of Religion, as the Ruling and exasperated Clergy are, as the Histories of all ages testifie.