A19884:901
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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His fifth answer maketh against himself. For, if they leave men at liberty about things indifferent &c. (wherein they are to be approved as walking according to the rule) why do they bind men, by unequal conditions, to this custom, which they, neither do, nor can sufficiently declare to be commanded by Christ, or to be warranted by the rule?
His fifth answer maketh against himselfe. For, if they leave men at liberty about things indifferent &c. (wherein they are to be approved as walking according to the rule) why doe they bind men, by unaequall conditions, to this custom, which they, neither doe, nor can sufficiently declare to be commanded by Christ, or to be warranted by the rule?
Let us now see what he saith to the proofs of the justness of their laying the blame of this miscarriage upon him, rather then upon the Classis.
Let us now see what he sayth to the proofes of the justnes of their laying the blame of this miscarriage upō him, rather then upō the Classis.
First. They say, that some of the Dutch Ministers themselves are willing to cast off some of their customs, if the vastness of their Church did not force them thereunto. Hereunto he giveth two answers. 1. that things simply unlawful are as well to be cast off in a great Church as in a small.] Reply. True: it is a duty as necessary to be done in the one as in the other, yet, it may more easily be done in the smaller Churches, and therefore the sin of the smaller Churches is the greater, if they do not cast off such an unwarrantable custom. The vastness of their Churches doth only excuse them, a tanto, not a toto. 2. that, in the smaller Churches in the villages, the same order is observed.] But. 1. it hath not been expressly required of any of the Ministers of those Churches (as a condition of their admittance, as it was of me) that they should rest in such a writing, which bindeth them to baptize all that are brought. 2. It may be questioned, whether all the Ministers, in those smaller villages, do so promiscuously administer Baptism, as they do, in Amsterdam, seeing such different sorts of people are not in those villages as in that City.