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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.
§ 54. Serm. p. 32 [Men may please themselves in talking of preserving peace and Love under separate Communions: But our own sad experience shows the contrary: For as nothing tends more to unite mens hearts than joining together in the same Prayer and Sacraments; so nothing doth more alienate mens affections, than withdrawing from each other into separate Congregations].
§ 54. Serm. p. 32 [Men may please themselves in talking of preserving peace and Love under separate Communions: But our own sad experience shews the contrary: For as nothing tends more to unite mens hearrs than joyning together in the same Prayer and Sacraments; so nothing doth more alienate mens affections, than withdrawing from each other into separate Congregations].
Ans. 1. But do all separate from you that are in other Parish Churches than yours; if not, do all separate that differ, as Cathedrals ⟨p. 75⟩from Parish Churches, or as conforming Preachers do from one another: If not, do they separate that omit a form or ceremony of yours?
Ans. 1. But do all separate from you that are in other Parish Churche• than yours; if not, do all separate that differ, as Cathedrals ⟨p. 75⟩from Parish Churches, or as conforming Preachers do from one another: If not, do they separate that omit a form or ceremony of yours?
2. I am sorry, if you have experience of the alienating of your affections from your neighbours, that quietly worship God by you: but its like you know what you say: For my part many of them have said and written more against me, them against you, and, I thank God, I love them heartily; yea and that your own party from whom I have suffered far more. It is mens diseases that make them impatient of a cross opinion or word or censure, and then they cry out of mens unpeaceableness: As Seneca saith, They that are sore complain if they but think their sore is touched.