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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.
Sect. 1. The proving the Affirmative is his work, pag. 7, &c. But the Presbyterians do not love confusion, nor to dispute such blindly-stated Questions. They distinguish,
Sect. 1. THe proving the Affirmative is his work, pag. 7, &c. But the Presbyterians do not love confusion, nor to dispute such blindly-stated Questions. They distinguish,
1. Between bare Local distinction, and separation; and that which is eminently called Separation in England, and denominated from the Separatists, which is [separating from the Parish-Churches, Ministry, & Worship, as being no true Churches, Ministry and Worship; or at least such as no Christians may lawfully Communicate with, in Doctrine, Prayer, and Sacraments, when they can have no better.] In the former sense (as is said) one Parish-Church is separate from another. And if there be any difference in their Forms or Modes of Worship; so was there between Basil ⟨p. 34⟩at Caesarea, and the Church at Neocesarea, and between Rome and Milan, and between almost all the Catholic Bishops for many hundred years. And so now, one Parish-Minister prayeth freely in the Pulpit after Sermon, and before; another by a Form; a third biddeth prayer before; and a fourth prayeth not afterward at all. And yet these are not separated Churches, any otherwise than Locally and in such Modal differences.
1. Between bare Local distinction, and separation; and that which is eminently called Separation in England, and denominated from the Separatists, which is [separating from the Parish-Churches, Ministry, & Worship, as being no true Churches, Ministry and Worship; or at least such as no Christians may lawfully Communicate with, in Doctrine, Prayer, and Sacraments, when they can have no better.] In the former sense (as is said) one Parish-Church is separate from another. And if there be any difference in their Forms or Modes of Worship; so was there between Basil ⟨p. 34⟩at Caesarea, and the Church at Neocesarea, and between Rome and Millane, and between almost all the Catholick Bishops for many hundred years. And so now, one Parish-Minister prayeth freely in the Pulpit after Sermon, and before; another by a Form; a third biddeth prayer before; and a fourth prayeth not afterward at all. And yet these are not separated Churches, any otherwise than Locally and in such Modal differences.