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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. 7. But factious Disputers see but on ⟨p. 45⟩one side. You thought not that you your self were all this while proving your selves Schismatics. I undertake to prove that Pastors and People are the Constitutive Essentials of a true Church: That Dr. Seaman, Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Gouge, Dr. Bates, Dr. Jacomb, and abundance more such, with the people subject to them, as Pastors, were true Churches.
Sect. 7. But factious Disputers see but on ⟨p. 45⟩one side. You thought not that you your self were all this while proving your selves Schismaticks. I undertake to prove that Pastors and People are the Constitutive Essentials of a true Church: That Dr. Seaman, Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Gouge, Dr. Bates, Dr. Jacomb, and abundance more such, with the people subject to them, as Pastors, were true Churches.
Prove you if you can, that on Aug. 24. 1662. they were degraded, or these true Churches dissolved, on any reason, which any Churches for 600 years after Christ would own.
4. If not, you seem your self to accuse their Successors, of Schism, for drawing away part of the people from them (merely by the advantage of having the Temples and Tithes) and so gathering Churches out of true Churches; so ordinary is it for self-esteeming men to talk to their own reproach and condemnation.