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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. 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?
2. How many Bishops have written that the Church of Rome is a true Church (as Halls Collection against Burton showeth you) and must no Churches therefore be gathered out of them?
2. How many Bishops have written that the Church of Rome is a true Church (as Halls Collection against Burton sheweth you) and must no Churches therefore be gathered out of them?
3. What advantage then hath every foolish Superstitious Priest above God, and over all good Christians? God bids us worship him according to his Law, and to do all things in order and decently, and to edification. And must not God be obeyed? No, if the Priest will not consent: For if he will worship God foolishly, with non-sence, undecently, disorderly, against edification, you cannot help it; his followers may be a true Church still, and then no man must remove to worship God better than pleaseth the Priest. He that is fallen under such drunken Readers, as I was bred under in my youth, that were drunk many times oftener than they preached (I am ready to prove it, for they never preached, but were drunk oft;) this poor man and his Family must venture their Souls on this sottish Drunkards conduct, because it is a true Church, and they must not go from a true Church; What a trick hath the Devil found to bind men to constancy in his service, so it be done in a true Church! Alas poor England, whose Teachers talk confidently at this rate, because they can say that they do it in a true Church, & did not the Parliament take a Church out of a true Church, when they separated Covent-Garden from Martins Parish. And so it is when Parishes are divided into two, one part is separated from the other.