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Richard Baxters answer to Dr. Edward Stillingfleet's charge of separation containing, I. some queries…
Richard Baxters answer to Dr. Edward Stillingfleet's charge of separation containing, I. some queries necessary for the understanding of his accusation, II. a reply to his letter which denieth a solution, III. an answer to his printed sermon : humbly tendered, I. to himself, II. to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the court of aldermen, III. to the readers of his accusation, the forum where we are accused.Richard Baxters answer to Dr. Edward Stillingfleet's charge of separation containing, I. some queries necessary for the understanding of his accusation, II. a reply to his letter which denyeth a solution, III. an answer to his printed sermon : humbly tendred, I. to himself, II. to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the court of aldermen, III. to the readers of his accusation, the forum where we are accused.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1680
Letter: To the Reverend Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls, &c.
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.
§. 8. I think you need not expect the Censures of the chief makers of our Divisions: And as to the inferior Sectaries, if you are a Sacrifice, it will be an unbloody one. You well admonish us in the end, not to complain too much when we are silenced, impoverished, and imprisoned: The counsel is good, But for the Dean of Pauls, &c. that is deservedly loved and honoured by us all whom you thus deal with, and by those great Men whose esteem he deservedly more valueth, while he liveth in this Plenty and Honour, to call himself [a Sacrifice] if a few poor Men say, He wrongeth them, when he pleadeth ⟨p. 28⟩against the Magistrates enduring them, or against their Judgment that think they should be endured, Doth not this seem to another greater tendency, than for me only to say de facto, I was laid in the Common Gaol, and fain to make away my Goods and Library to save them from Distress?] But so much to your Epistle: The Sermon followeth.
§. 8. I think you need not expect the Censures of the chief makers of our Divisions: And as to the inferiour Sectaries, if you are a Sacrifice, it will be an unbloody one. You well admonish us in the end, not to complain too much when we are silenc'd, impoverished, and imprisoned: The counsel is good, But for the Dean of Pauls, &c. that is deservedly loved and honoured by us all whom you thus deal with, and by those great Men whose esteem he deservedly more valueth, while he liveth in this Plenty and Honour, to call himself [a Sacrifice] if a few poor Men say, He wrongeth them, when he pleadeth ⟨p. 28⟩against the Magistrates enduring them, or against their Judgment that think they should be endured, Doth not this seem to another greater tendency, than for me only to say de facto, I was laid in the Common Gaol, and fain to make away my Goods and Library to save them from Distress?] But so much to your Epistle: The Sermon followeth.
§. 9. And what could a Man have desired more to end the main differences among us, than the serious consideration of your Text in its very plain import and drift.