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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. 6. You understand neither the Men that you talk of, nor their Cause: they take not the Independents Assemblies to be [the Tents of Enemies;] they leave terms of Enmity among Brethren, to those that have enmity in their hearts. Nor do they [tamely deliver up the Cause.] The most Nonconformable Ministers of my acquaintance, whose judgment I ever asked of that matter, do seem to think as I my self do, that the Episcopal, Presbyterians, Independents, and Erastians, have each of them some Truth and Good which above the rest they do defend; and each of them some special mistake, where they err above the rest: And if we could know it, we would take the Best from among them all, and leave the worst: And not maintain Church-quarrels, under pretence, that we must not fly to the Enemy, and give up the Cause.
Sect. 6. You understand neither the Men that you talk of, nor their Cause: they take not the Independents Assemblies to be [the Tents of Enemies;] they leave terms of Enmity among Brethren, to those that have enmity in their hearts. Nor do they [tamely deliver up the Cause.] The most Nonconformable Ministers of my acquaintance, whose judgment I ever asked of that matter, do seem to think as I my self do, that the Episcopal, Pretbyterians, Independents, and Erastians, have each of them some Truth and Good which above the rest they do defend; and each of them some special mistake, where they err above the rest: And if we could know it, we would take the Best from among them all, and leave the worst: And not maintain Church-quarrels, under pretense, that we must not flie to the Enemy, and give up the Cause.
Sect. 7. O the confidence of this Adviser in his own understanding; that dare say [That he is sure that the Presbyterians have no reason to engage in a way of public Worship contradistinct to our Parochial Congregations.]