A41330:74
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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IT was not without the ordering of Divine Providence that the day which the Imitators of the Heathens [Greek or Hebrew], did consecrate to their St. Bartholomew, should be the day on which the blood of so many thousand Protestants was poured out in France, and the day also on which so many hundreds of Gospel-Ministers, to whom Christ had given both will and skill for his work, success in his work, were turned out of his work in England. The crime both there and here which they found, was the same the Princes found against Daniel in the Law of his God. A day of gladness it was to many, but not to all upon the same ground. One Conformist, and a man of note, tells a Captain under his Majesty, since his Return, that he was glad so many Ministers refused to conform; the Captain would know his reason: he gives it thus: Had all Ministers conformed, people would have thought there was nothing in Religion, only a thing to talk of in the Pulpit, and serve a State-design, for these Ministers will turn any way the State turn: But by their giving up their livings, ⟨p. 2⟩and exposing themselves and families to outward evils, rather than they would conform to things imposed not agreeable (as they apprehended) to the Gospel they preached, they have convinced men there is reality in Religion, and given a check to Atheism. This was the substance; and to be sure he was not more glad than I was, when the Captain told me his Discourse.
IT was not without the ordering of Divine Providence that the day which the Imitators of the Heathens 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, did consecrate to their St. Bartholomew, should be the day on which the blood of so many thousand Protestants was poured out in France, and the day also on which so many hundreds of Gospel-Ministers, to whom Christ had given both will and skill for his work, success in his work, were turned out of his work in England. The crime both there and here which they found, was the same the Princes found against Daniel in the Law of his God. A day of gladness it was to many, but not to all upon the same ground. One Conformist, and a man of note, tells a Captain under his Majesty, since his Return, that he was glad so many Ministers refused to conform; the Captain would know his reason: he gives it thus: Had all Ministers conformed, people would have thought there was nothing in Religion, only a thing to talk of in the Pulpit, and serve a State-design, for these Ministers will turn any way the State turn: But by their giving up their livings,