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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.
First, That the door of entrance might not have bin barred by any other subscriptions, professions or Oaths, than what were used in the Churches of Christ, till the exaltation of the Papacy (for 600 years,) besides the Oaths of Allegiance and supremacy, and the subscribing the Doctrine of the Church of England, in the 39. Articles, according to the 13th. of Queen Elizabeth.
First, That the door of enterance might not have bin barred by any other subscriptions, professions or Oaths, than what were used in the Churches of Christ, till the exaltation of the Papacy (for 600 years,) besides the Oaths of Allegeance and supremacy, and the subscribing the Doctrine of the Church of England, in the 39. Articles, according to the 13th. of Queen Elizabeth.
Secondly, That those (so subscribing) who dare not use the Liturgy and Ceremonies, ⟨p. 137⟩might have leave to preach in the Churches which use them, under Laws which shall restrain them from all unpeaceable opposition to what they dare not use, or to the Government of the Church. And having mentioned this, What if I added yet this clause to my present Petition to you?
V. That you will yet Petition for us, or rather for the Church of Christ, that upon the foresaid terms we may be, if possible, taken in to the established Ministry, If not, yet tolerated as Lecturers under you in such Churches, where the Ministers desire us, not taking any of their maintenance from them, but trusting God for our daily bread.