A91650:13
A renunciation and declaration of the ministers of Congregational churches and public preachers of…A renuntiation and declaration of the ministers of Congregational churches and publick preachers of…
A renunciation and declaration of the ministers of Congregational churches and public preachers of the same judgment, living in, and about the city of London: against the late horrid insurrection and rebellion acted in the said city.A renuntiation and declaration of the ministers of Congregational churches and publick preachers of the same judgment, living in, and about the city of London: against the late horrid insurrection and rebellion acted in the said city.
London: printed by Peter Cole and Edward Cole, 1661
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To make all this a Cause, And the cause of Religion, by the power of force and Blood, thus to obtain a worldly Dominion and Power over all means Estates and Lives: What an high Presumption is all this, and Derogation to the Glory of Christ?
Nor can there be any principle more Pernicious to the Saints themselves dispersed throughout the Nations of the World.
Nor can there be any principle more Pernitious to the Saints themselves dispersed throughout the Nations of the World.
Seeing the Wrath of Princes, and Governors in all Dominions might, thereby, be inflamed, and Their Sword whetted against them. And it engageth also these men themselves, or any others, with whom this wicked persuasion shall prevail, to Destroy the whole Body of Saints, and others Promiscuously, as enemies to the Kingdom of Christ, if not of this Opinion. As if that ⟨p. 6⟩Jesus Christ who is Lord over all, and Rich unto all, having so long expected the accomplishment of His Kingdom, were so impatiently desirous of a Kingdom of Saints to be set up in the World, that to advance it, though but in a few, he regarded not the thousands of thousands of the People of God that are in the World, and who in their Consciences stand engaged to oppose it.
Seeing the Wrath of Princes, and Governors in all Dominions might, thereby, be enflamed, and Their Sword whetted against them. And it ingageth also these men themselves, or any others, with whom this wicked perswasion shal prevail, to Destroy the whol Body of Saints, and others Promiscuously, as enemies to the Kingdom of Christ, if not of this Opinion. As if that ⟨p. 6⟩