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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.
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.
2. Or at least you might have had the greater peace of Conscience, in all the confusions that have followed, and said, It is not long of us. And you would have acquitted your selves in the judgement of all your hearers, and they would have bin the less prejudiced against your Ministry.
Had you Petitioned and prevailed but for these two things, you had healed all our breaches,