A19884:146
An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of…An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of…
An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his writings. By John Davenport BD.An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his wrightings. By Iohn Davenporte BD.
Rotterdam: printed by Isaac van Waesberghe, 1636Rotterdam: printed by Isaack van Waesberghe, 1636
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.
The answer to the first and second Section examined.
The ansvver to the first and second Section examined.
Having examined the title, and the preface; we now come to examine the particulars of the complaint, so far as it hath pleased this Answerer to interest me therein, by making use of my name, which he doth, not covertly, but writing it at large, nor sparingly, but almost in every page, and that, not only when the complainants naming me in their writing constrained him so to do, but also needlessly, and without provocation: as if his desire were deeply to imprint an evil prejudice in the mind of the Reader against me. And particularly, in the second section,1 he beginneth with me thus.
HAving examined the title, and the praeface; we now come to examine the particulars of the complaint, so farr as it hath pleased this Answerer to interest me therein, by making use of my name, which he doth, not covertly, but wrighting it at large, nor sparingly, but almost in every page, and that, not only when the complainants naming me in their wrighting constrained him so to doe, but also needlesly, and without provocation: as if his desire were deeply to imprint an evill praejudice in the mind of the Reader against me. And particularly, in the second section,1 he beginneth with me thus.
- 1pag. 6. Answ.