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An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…An ansvver to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…
An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of the country to a person of quality in the city. Who took offence at the late sermon of Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of S. Pauls; before the lord mayor.An ansvver to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of the countrey to a person of quality in the city. Who took offence at the late sermon of Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of S. Pauls; before the lord mayor.
London: printed by S.W., 1680
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.
I. It is first necessary that we have a true state of the cause it self before our Eyes; which is plainly this,
That as there are very great numbers of People, beyond what the Ministers of Parishes, in divers places, can possibly perform Ministerial Duty unto: So there are withal very many that cannot be satisfied in conscience, to intrust their Souls and their Spiritual Concernments to the Pastoral Care and Conduct of the Parochial Ministry only; Though they generally have a very reverend esteem of divers who are of it: do, many of them, very frequently partake of some part of their Labours, and rejoice in them as great Ornaments and real Blessings to the Christian Church. But these are very unproportionable in number to the Necessities of the People, and are by Legal restraints tied up one way, as they by conscientious, are another, in respect of some principal parts of Christian ⟨p. 4⟩Worship; without which they should be visibly in the condition of Pagans.
That as there are very great numbers of People, beyond what the Ministers of Parishes, in divers places, can possibly perform Ministerial Duty unto: So there are withal very many that cannot be satisfied in conscience, to intrust their Souls and their Spiritual Concernments to the Pastoral Care and Conduct of the Parochial Ministry only; Though they generally have a very reverend esteem of divers who are of it: do, many of them, very frequently partake of some part of their Labours, and rejoyce in them as great Ornaments and real Blessings to the Christian Church. But these are very unproportionable in number to the Necessities of the People, and are by Legal restraints ty'd up one way, as they by conscientious, are another, in respect of some principal parts of Christian ⟨p. 4⟩Worship; without which they should be visibly in the condition of Pagans.