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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
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.
First, the reasons were two. 1. the scandal of the Brownists. 2. the offence of the Church. In both which he should have set down my answers also, which seeing he neglected, I will now set down truly, according the to substance of my answer, and yet briefly.
First, the reasons were two. 1. the scandall of the Brownists. 2. the offence of the Church. In both which he should have set downe my answers also, which seing he neglected, I will now set downe truely, according the to substance of my answer, and yet breifely.
1To the first. I answer. 4 things. Ans. 1 1. What the Brownists hold, so far as it accordeth with the rule, is to be received for the rules sake, which is truth, and not to be rejected because they hold it. Ans. 2 2. Their unjust and unwarrantable excommunicating of Mr. S. for such an opinion is not justified by my supposed agreement with them in this tenet. For a man that holdeth this, may condemn that. Ans. 3 3. the difference between them and me ⟨p. 119⟩in this point is such (as the Answerer knoweth) that there is no fear of their insulting, or being hardened thereby. 4. the French Churches and some other Dutch Churches, viz, in Zealand. and England &c. are not so large in this practise as they in Amsterdam.
1To the first. I answer. 4 things. Ans. 1 1. What the Brownists hold, so farr as it accordeth with the rule, is to be received for the rules sake, which is truth, and not to be rejected because they hold it. Ans. 2 2. Theyr unjust and unwarrantable excommunicating of Mr. S. for such an opinion is not justifyed by my supposed agreement with them in this tenet. For a man that holdeth this, may condemne that. Ans. 3 3. the difference betweene them and me ⟨p. 119⟩in this point is such (as the Answerer knoweth) that there is no feare of theyr insulting, or being hardened thereby. 4. the French Churches and some other Dutch Churches, viz, in Zealand. and England &c. are not so large in this practise as they in Amsterdam.