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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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Sect. 3. My Answer is, 1. It is not advisable for any Nonconformists, who before held the Parish Congregations to be true Churches, and their communion lawful, and used to communicate with them, to change these principles, nor to renounce, or totally forbear such communion. 2. But it is advisable for them, when they are cast out of the Parish-Ministry, and forbidden to Preach in the Parish-Temples, but have leave to exercise their Ministry elsewhere, accordingly elsewhere to exercise it; either in stated, or occasional Assemblies, that shall be parts or no parts of the Parish-Congregations, as the variety of places and cases shall require, which Assemblies shall be distinct and separate from the said Perish-Congregations, either as Chapels be, or (somewhere) as one Parish-Congregation is separate from another, being not one, nor in one place, if you will call that separation. But this but for a time, with Profession of great unwillingness, and of a desire to return into the Parochial Ministry, as soon as you can procure them leave: But resolving not to be ⟨p. 28⟩Idle, Cruel, Sacrilegious, and Perfidious till then, but to live with all godly conformable Ministers, with Christian Love, and Peace, and Concord, if it be possible, and you will give them leave.
Sect. 3. My Answer is, 1. It is not adviseable for any Nonconformists, who before held the Parish Congregations to be true Churches, and their communion lawful, and used to communicate with them, to change these principles, nor to renounce, or totally forbear such communion. 2. But it is adviseable for them, when they are cast out of the Parish-Ministry, and forbidden to Preach in the Parish-Temples, but have leave to exercise their Ministry elsewhere, accordingly elsewhere to exercise it; either in stated, or occasional Assemblies, that shall be parts or no parts of the Parish-Congregations, as the variety of places and cases shall require, which Assemblies shall be distinct and separate from the said Perish-Congregations, either as Chappels be, or (somewhere) as one Parish-Congregation is separate from another, being not one, nor in one place, if you will call that separation. But this but for a time, with Profession of great unwillingness, and of a desire to return into the Parochial Ministery, as soon as you can procure them leave: But resolving not to be