A19884:940
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.
Sect. 32. to 40. examined.
IN the eight following Sections I find nothing which I am by name called to examine, excepting that here and there my name is mentioned in his repeating things already sufficiently cleared▪ only in the 39 Section, whereas they complained of manifest injury done by the Answerer to me, whom he reproached in public about the meeting of diverse to hear me upon the grounds of Religion in Catechising the family, where I lived (though enough hath been said, in the 20 Section, for the satisfaction of the indifferent Reader, about my carriage in that business.) it will be requisite, upon a new provocation, to add 2 or 3 words, in this place also, for the removal of some intimations injuriously cast in by the Answerer to fasten a suspicion of disorder upon that private exercise. For 1. in his second, answer, he supposeth, that I there preached, without a calling▪ whereas I neither preached (in the sense wherein he taketh the word, viz, by virtue of a public office in that place) nor performed that private exercise, without a sufficient calling thereunto, both from the duty of my private domesticall relation to ⟨p. 276⟩my own family, and from the desire of the Master of that family, where I then lived, to those of his household, and whereas others desired to partake of the benefit of it, their desire was calling sufficient for their admittance to that private exercise, by virtue of the spiritual relation which all Christians have mutually among themselves, and the right which thereby they have to communicate in the gifts and labours of one another, for their edification. So that, even for this cause, there was good reason for them and me to be offended at so public a slander of that action, and of our intentions therein. As for the place of Scripture misapplied by him, out of Mat. 28.19, to reprove this duty; it doeth not forbid private men any duty, the performance whereof is required in other texts. as. 1. Masters to their own families in instructing them.