A27014:88
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. 5. The love of peace, and the fear of frightening any further from Parish-communion than I desire, do oblige me to forbear so much as to describe or name the additional Conformity, and that sin which Nonconformists fear and fly from, which maketh it harder to us that desire it, to draw many good people to communion with Conformists, than it was of old. But when both Law, and Love of Peace and Concord forbid us, so much as to name the Causes, it is disingenuous for the culpable to take that advantage against us, and to urge us to do that which they themselves cannot bear.
Sect. 5. The love of peace, and the fear of frightning any further from Parish-communion than I desire, do oblige me to forbear so much as to describe or name the additional Conformity, and that sin which Nonconformists fear and fly from, which maketh it harder to us that desire it, to draw many good people to communion with Conformists, than it was of old. But when both Law, and Love of Peace and Concord forbid us, so much as to name the Causes, it is disingenious for the culpable to take that advantage against us, and to urge us to do that which they themselves cannot bear.
Sect. 6. But with full sail of self-conceitedness he next comes upon us, with this as an undeniable proof, that [our Members are taken out of true Churches.] Who would gainsay a man of such understanding?
But 1. Do not those, as aforesaid, that remove from one Parish Church to another, remove from true Churches?