A48126:13
A Letter of the Presbyterian ministers in the city of London presented the first…
A Letter of the Presbyterian ministers in the city of London presented the first of Jan. 1645, to the reverend Assembly of Divines, sitting at Westminster, by authority of Parliament, against toleration : now re-printed with some animadversions thereon.
London: printed for J. Johnson, 1668
Letter: To our Reverend, Learned, and Religious Brethren, the Prolocutor, and the rest of the D…
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.
1. The desires and endeavours of Independents for a Toleration, are at this time extremely unseasonable and praeproperous: for,
1. The desires and endeavours of Independents for a Toleration, are at this time extreamly unseasonable and praeproperous: for,
1. The Reformation of Religion is not yet perfected and settled among us, according to our Covenant. And why may not the Reformation be raised up at last to such purity and perfection, that truly tender Consciences may receive abundant satisfaction for ought that yet appears?
1. The Reformation of Religion is not yet perfected and setled among us, according to our Covenant. And why may not the Reformation be raised up at last to such purity and perfection, that truly tender Consciences may receive abundant satisfaction for ought that yet appears?
2. It is not yet known what the Government of the Independents is, neither would they ever yet vouchsafe to let the world know what they hold in that point, though some of their party have been too forward to challenge the London Petitioners as led with blind obedience, and pinning their souls upon the Priests sleeve, for desiring an establishment of the Government of Christ, before there was any model of it extant.