Ministers of the Gospel
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Ministers... not conform · the ministers of the gospel of Christ
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Clergy invoked as historical perpetrators of cruelty and bloodshed despite their religious mission of mercy.
and the ministers of the gospel of Christ bathing their hands in blood, in the name of the God of all mercy.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Ministers who cannot conform to the settled Presbyterian government, granted limited toleration to meet and preach under conditions.
That liberty shall be given to all Ministers of the Gospel, though they cannot conform to the present Government in all things, being not under sequestration, nor sequesterable, to preach any lecture or lectures, in any church or chapel, where they shall be desired by the inhabitants thereof;
and that all such persons as shall not conform to the said form of government and Divine Service, shall have liberty to meet for the service and worship of God, and for the exercise of religious duties and ordinances, in any fit and convenient places, so as nothing be done by them to the disturbance of the peace of the kingdom:
That it be also provided, that this indulgence shall not extend to exempt any person or persons from any penalty by law imposed, or to be imposed, upon them for absenting themselves upon the Lord’s Day from hearing the Word of God, unless they can show reasonable cause of their absence, or that they were present elsewhere to hear the Word of God preached or expounded unto them, so as the said prea …