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An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate…
An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate and the continuation thereof / by a lover of truth and peace.
S.l. : s.n., 1669
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.
Quest. Is there not a good riddance of so many Mr. Scruples out of the Church? And is there any want of able Preachers up and down in the Country now they are ejected?
Answ. My Lord Bacon in his days, thought there was a scarcity of able Preachers, and yet there were not the tithe perhaps of Ministers silenced then, to what are now. And be thought then that the silencing of the Ministers for their Nonconformity was a punishment of the People rather than of the Minister. He conceived then also that such Subscriptions might have been forborne as occasioned the silencing of divers of those Ministers. Cons. ab Eccl. Aff.
Answ. My Lord Bacon in his dayes, thought there was a scarcity of able Preachers, and yet there were not the tythe perhaps of Ministers silenced then, to what are now. And be thought then that the silencing of the Ministers for their Nonconformity was a punishment of the People rather than of the Minister. He conceived then also that such Subscriptions might have been forborn as occasioned the silencing of divers of those Ministers. Cons. ab Eccl. Aff.
Quest. What if there were many places made void by the ejectment of Nonconformists, may not those places be well filled by Conforming-Pluralists?