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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.
Ans. 1. Alas, you show us, that some men perceive not when it flieth in their faces. [Reader, hence take heed of Believing words of Reproach against Adversaries, when Interest and Siding hath made men partial. Would you think that all this intimated silence ⟨p. 87⟩were an untruth against public Testimony?
Ans. 1. Alas, you shew us, that some men perceive not when it flyeth in their faces. [Reader, hence take heed of Believing words of Reproach against Adversaries, when Interest and Sideing hath made men partial. Would you think that all this intimated silence ⟨p. 87⟩were an untruth against publick Testimony?
1. I have many and many times declared in print what he intimateth that we dare not Preach. And is not Printing a far more Public declaration, than speaking it in one Room?
1. I have many and many times declared in print what he intimateth that we dare not Preach. And is not Printing a far more Publick declaration, than speaking it in one Room?
2. When I began to Preach at St. James's, I read a Profession to the Congregation openly, that I preached not there as to a separate Church, but as in concord with all Christs Church on Earth, for the necessity of the People that had not many of them heard a Sermon many a year, the Parish having 40000 if not 60000 Souls more than could hear in the Parish Church.
2. When I began to Preach at St. James's, I read a Profession to the Congregation openly, that I preacht not there as to a separate Church, but as in concord with all Christs Church on Earth, for the necessity of the People that had not many of them heard a Sermon many a year, the Parish having 40000 if not 60000 Souls more than could hear in the Parish Church.