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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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3. Except.] That he saith. I have dealt very injuriously with him, not only in reporting many things, but in sundry inferences, &c.] this is a trick of policy, to prepossess his credulous Reader with a forestalled opinion, & prejudice against what I wright, but the wise-hearted will compare the Reply with the answer in every Section impartially, and so judge righteous judgment.
3. Except.] That he sayth. I have dealt very injuriously with him, not only in reporting many things, but in sundry inferences, &c.] this is a trick of policy, to praepossesse his credulous Reader with a forestalled opinion, & praejudice against what I wright, but the wise-hearted will compare the Reply with the answer in every Section impartially, and so judge righteous judgment.
4. Except.] That he saith, most of my complaints are, for substance, the very same that these Complainants have framed, as if the same pen had written both;] As if he would intimate that I am the author of those complaints; whereas I am persuaded, that, in his own heart, he doth acquit me thereof, both in observation of some passages in that writing, which any man may conceive not to be penned by me, and, upon his strict examination of some of the Subscribers, and of those. 3. whom he exempteth from the number of Subscribers (having, as he saith, acknowledged their fault therein) by whom, if he could have understood that I had been guilty, the Reader should have found it, I believe, either in great letters, or in some remarkable marginal note, expressed and aggravated to the uttermost: yet he so framed his answer to theirs, as if the whole book were an answer to me only, whereas my writing was in some of their hands, a good space of time, before theirs was framed: whence all, that can probably be inferred, is, that they received ⟨p. 100⟩some information about things that concerned my self, from thence, or from my own words. And whatsoever more is inferred from thence is to be returned back to his own needless jealousy, from whence it came.