An answer to a letter from a clergyman in the city, to his friend in the country containing his reasons for not reading the declaration.
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An answer to a letter from a clergyman in the city, to his friend in the country containing his reasons for not reading the declaration.
Author
Poulton.
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[London :: s.n.,
1688]
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Halifax, George Savile, -- Marquis of, 1633-1695. -- Letter from a clergyman in the city to his friend in the country.
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"An answer to a letter from a clergyman in the city, to his friend in the country containing his reasons for not reading the declaration." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55530.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2025.
Pages
LETTER.
Secondly, The Ministers of Religion have a greater tye and obliga∣tion
than this, because they have the care and conduct of mens Souls,
and therefore are bound to take care that what they publish in their
Churches, be neither contrary to the Laws of the Land, nor to the good
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of the Church: For the Ministers of Religion are not lookt upon as com∣mon
Cryers, but what they Read, they are supposed to recommend too,
though they do no more than Read it; and therefore to read any thing in
the Church, which I do not consent to and approve, nay which I think
prejudicial to Religion, and the Church of God, as well as contrary to
the Laws of the Land, is to Mis-guide my People, and to Dissemble with
God and Men, because it is presum'd, that I neither do, nor ought to
read any thing in the Church, which I do not in some degree approve.
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