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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
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Be it so: but, First, Let it be proved that it is so in these persons: Reply. wherein the Answerer is to prove 3 things. 1. That the things charged upon these persons are offences and errors. 2. That they are eminent ones. 3. That they are just cause of opposing and refusing such eminent men, as unfit for his Congregation.
Be it so: but, First, Let it be proved that it is so in these persons: Reply. wherein the Answerer is to prove 3 things. 1. That the things charged upon these persons are offences and errours. 2. That they are eminent ones. 3. That they are just cause of opposing and refusing such eminent men, as unfitt for his Congregation.
Secondly, Let these things be proved by Scripture, For all men are apt, 1, to err, and to be in love with their errors, 2, to be harsh and unadvised in their judgement of others.
Secondly, Let these things be proved by Scripture, For all men are apt, 1, to err, and to be in loue with their errours, 2, to be harsh and unadvised in their judgement of others.
First, Men are apt to err, & to be in love with their errors.1 The cause of which mischief is the perverseness of their passions, which oftentimes so overheat & distemper the heart, that, out of it, as it were, exhaling thick and black vapours, upon the understanding, they, either disturb our judgments, or altogether dull our apprehensions. In which respect, an heart chafed with passion, leaveth us in a worse case, then piercing smokes do the eyes which bereave us of our bodily sight: For they, seeing nothing, can not be deluded by lying apparitions, but by these, though the light of the understanding be dimmed, yea extinguished, yet there remains a presumptuous conceit of our own clear sight, and real comprehension of the truth: whence it is, that man, compassed about with thick darkness, confidently imagineth that he walketh in the sun-shine, and he is strongly conceited, that he hath then fast hold of the truth, when he huggeth an absurd ridiculous fable.