A19884:873
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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Were these Synods schismatical Conventicles? or, were their Canons schismatical conclusions? How then is this, which I affirm, schismatical?
Were these Synods schysmaticall Conventicles? or, were their Canons schysmaticall conclusions? How then is this, which I affirme, schysmaticall?
To brand me with an imputation of schism, he spareth not these Synods which deliver the same thing, in effect, that I say, and all those worthies who have written concerning Ecclesiastical discipline, or the authority of Councils, of whom we spake in the former Section, or, which have handled the power of particular Churches in choosing their own Pastors, of whom we spake in the foregoing Section: Yea, I wish, he may not be found to bear false witness against the truth it self in the Scriptures, which we have declared, in both those Sections, to warrant so much as I have said in this matter.
To brand me with an imputation of schysme, he spareth not these Synods which deliver the same thing, in effect, that I say, and all those worthyes who have written concerning Ecclesiasticall discipline, or the authority of Councills, of whom we spake in the former Section, or, which have handled the power of particular Churches in chusing their owne Pastors, of whom we spake in the foregoing Section: Yea, I wish, he may not be found to beare false witnes against the truth it selfe in the Scriptures, which we have declared, in both those Sections, to warrant so much as I have said in this matter.
4. His fourth answer supposeth that eminent men may cause eminent danger by their private opinions.] The men, in whom he instanceth, I confess, were not inferior to either of us, in learning. But that which he intimateth, concerning opinions held by them which tended to the ruin and desolation of Churches, if he apply it to this question, about the power of particular Churches to admit of Ministers to preach as assistants, I cannot acknowledge to be true, upon the former grounds, but, if he mean any other opinions or practises, it is nothing to the matter in question.