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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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To the second presumption, that they that sent for me, and I. C. that fetched me over, did not seek me but for 3 or 4 months; J answer. 1. Suppose their desire was to enjoy me longer; will it thence follow, that I yielded for longer time? 2. By what hath been formerly said it appeareth sufficiently that I agreed with him for no longer time, which himself is able and ready to testify. if it be required.
To the second praesumption, that they that sent for me, and I. C. that fetched me over, did not seeke me but for 3 or 4 moneths; J answer. 1. Suppose theyr desire was to injoy me longer; will it thence follow, that I yeelded for longer time? 2. By what hath bene formerly said it appeareth sufficiently that I agreed with him for no longer time, which himselfe is able and ready to testifye. if it be required.
To the third presumption; that the friend which by an open and unsealed letter, which I brought unto him from London, entreated him to receive me for a fellow helper, did not desire that for 3 or 4 months only.
To the third praesumption; that the freind which by an open and unsealed letter, which I brought unto him from London, intreated him to receive me for a fellow helper, did not desire that for 3 or 4 moneths only.
Answer. I think, never did Laban search so narrowly Jacobs stuff to find his Idols, as this Answerer doeth to find an untruth in my assertion. To what end is this brought in? If he think, or would persuade others, that I procured that friends letter that I might obtain the place, he is much deceived. For neither stands it with my judgment to seek a place (much less by such private recommendations) nor need I the letters of any private friend, having a more public testimony. And how little I minded that letter, may appear in this, that I know not that it was unsealed, and, if indeed it was unsealed, I know not at all what was written in it. It is likely, that, knowing the author of it to be my approved friend, and one that hath deserved well of the Answerer, I supposed, he would commend me to him affectionately, to be lovingly entertained, & used by him in a strange Country, and so took no further heed to it. But, what if that friend did entreat him to receive me for a fellow helper? Will it follow thence, that I sought it? who seeth not the vanity of these pretences?