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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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because they got preferment, in those days, by writing against him. Is this to forsake the Lords plough? or is it not, for the testimony of Christ, to be content that the ploughers plough long furrows upon our backs? Did Athanasius forsake the Lords plough, when, to decline Julians plot against him, he fled from Alexandria? This was not to forsake the calling of God, but to follow it. The like I may say of Peter Martyrs relinquishing ⟨p. 106⟩his station in Luca, when he saw he could not with safety hold it, it was not a deserting of his flock, but a preserving himself for his flock, whom if he had not left for a time, they, and the whole Church had lost for ever. I will not now speak of Policarpus, and Cyprian, & others in former times, nor of those who fled in Q: Mary's days, and were preserved in Frankfurt, and other places for after times.
because they got preferment, in those dayes, by wrighting against him. Is this to forsake the Lords plough? or is it not, for the testimony of Christ, to be content that the ploughers plough long furrowes upon our backs? Did Athanasius forsake the Lords plough, when, to decline Iulians plot against him, he fled from Alexandria? This was not to forsake the calling of God, but to follow it. The like I may say of Peter Martyrs relinquishing ⟨p. 106⟩his station in Luca, when he saw he could not with safety hold it, it was not a deserting of his flock, but a preserving himselfe for his flock, whom if he had not left for a time, they, and the whole Church had lost for ever. I wil not now speake of Policarpus, and Cyprian, & others in former times, nor of those who fled in Q: Maryes dayes, and were preserved in Franckfurt, and other places for after times.
In Hypothesi.] For the justifying of mine own act, in this particular (being injuriously compelled hereunto, in so public a way, by the inconsiderate importunity of an angry brother who seemeth very regardless how far he exposeth me to censure, or danger) I will briefly relate, both the causes of it, and the manner of my carriage in it. That the true cause may be known, false causes pretended by others, must be removed. For, this way, I have been much wronged, whilst many, out of ignorance, or malice, or both, either willingly not knowing, or maliciously concealing the truth, have taken an unwarrantable liberty to spread abroad slanders, with as much confidence, as if they had been trained up in the Machiavells and Jesuits principles,