A55307:108
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
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.
10. Let greater care likewise be taken of the Piety and Sobriety of their Conversations. Ad Personarum quidem delectum quod attinet, qui ad munus ejusmodi publicum eligi debent, tales esse oportet ut duo ista in iis inveniantur, Primò, Doctrina sana & orthodoxa, Deinde vita & mores convenientes non modo professioni Religionis Christianae, verum etiam tam sancto & singulari muneri. Ad hoc etenim vocantur, ut alios tum sermone, tum vitae exemplo doceant. Theses Salmur. De Minist. Evangel. vocatione. Let none be admitted to the Sacred Office, that are of Impious Lives, and Immoral Conversations; such persons give occasion to men of Profane and Atheistical Tempers and Inclinations, to scoff, scorn, and ⟨p. 66⟩deride all Religion, and burlesque it out of the World: and to others that are of pious and devout Inclinations, to forsake Public Assemblies, and run after Private Meetings, and Conventicles. These things are obvious, and no man that hath Eyes in his head, can very well miss the Observation of them. And thus 'twill be, till greater care be taken of the Lives and Practices of those that are admitted to minister in holy things; of which at present I see no great I kelihood, seeing those that make the fiercest Declamations against Separation & Conventicles, & do sometimes complain also of the Atheism, Profaneness, and Debauchery of the Times, take no care of removing away the Causes, and Occasions of them. For I do not doubt but that very much of the Impiety, Irreligion, Separation and Division, which do abound among us, is in a great degree imputable to the Ignorance and Wickedness of Clergy-men. Were Clergy-men persons of Wisdom, Learning and Gravity, and of unblemished Conversation, that had nothing to do with any of the unfruitful Works of Darkness themselves, they would shame and rebuke the Licentiousness of the Age, and more easily draw people from the Private Assemblies to the more Public Worship of God.
10. Let greater care likewise be taken of the Piety and Sobriety of their Conversations. Ad Personarum quidem delectum quod attinet, qui ad munus ejusmodi publicum eligi debent, tales esse oportet ut duo ista in iis inveniantur, Primò, Doctrina sana & orthodoxa, Deinde vita & mores convenientes non modo professioni Religionis Christianae, verum etiam tam sancto & singulari muneri. Ad hoc etenim vocantur, ut alios tum sermone, tum vitae exemplo doceant. Theses Salmur. De Minist. Evangel. vocatione. Let none be admitted to the Sacred Office, that are of Impious Lives, and Immoral Conversations; such persons give occasion to men of Prophane and Atheistical Tempers and Inclinations, to scoff, scorn, and