A19884:294
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.
In like manner, my reply Reply. to these passages shall be. 1 more general to the whole discourse of this Section. 2 more especial to the several parts.
In like manner, my reply Reply. to these passages shall be. 1 more generall to the whole discourse of this Section. 2 more especiall to the severall parts.
First, In general,1 It is to be noted, that all his answers tend to the disparagement of the persons whom the Complainants do so highly reverence. To let pass the inhumanity of reproaching the absent; and the dead, and the impiety of his encouraging the enemies of God to blaspheme, who may easily think that they have just cause to revile and speak evil of these men, when they shall see that this Answerer spareth them not, and that in print. And (that I may retort his own words, but more fitly,) What ⟨p. 56⟩wonder, if they follow, when they are so lead forth, and by such a grave leader?) May it please the reader to consider the imprudence of this course.2 Socrates reporteth of Atticus, Bishop of Constantinople, that he was a pious and prudent man, and how wonderfully (saith he) did he promove the good of the Church, by his prudent administration! would you know, wherein? He reconciled those that were at variance, (about the injury done to Chrysostom) to the rest of the Church. How was that effected? By a course quite contrary to that, which this Answerer taketh. Not, by disparaging Chrysostom, as unfit for the Congregation, but by causing the name of Chrysostom to be mentioned, in public, with other Bishops, 3(I suppose in thanksgiving) which plot Proclus, one of his successors, followed and perfected, to the full taking away of that Schism.4