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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.
§. 74. Serm. 54. [Where are the Priscillians that have been put to death by their instigation? What do such insinuations mean, but that our Bishops are the followers of Ithacius and Idacius in their cruelty; and they of the good and meek Bishop St. Martin, who refused communion with them on that account? If men entertain such kind thoughts of themselves, and such hard thoughts of their Superiors, whatever they plead for, they have no inclination to Peace.]
§. 74. Serm. 54. [Where are the Priscillians that have been put to death by their instigation? What do such insinuations mean, but that our Bishops are the followers of Ithacius and Idacius in their cruelty; and they of the good and meek Bishop St. Martin, who refused communion with them on that account? If men entertain such kind thoughts of themselves, and such hard thoughts of their Superiours, whatever they plead for, they have no inclination to Peace.]
Answ. 1. That is, to your Terms of Peace, and you being Judge. 2. Knowledge is oft constrained: It is no sin to know History, much less Public matter of present fact, and least of all, that which we see and feel. Is it a sin to know when a man is in prison, or when his goods or books are distrained, &c? I the rather speak to this, because a Reverend Bishop tells me also of this wrong, as if those Bishops case were unlike to his; and citeth the words of the Historian that mentioneth the suffering of the Churches in Spain on that account, as if Maximus had but taken advantage of the Bishops spleen to Tyrannize, and prey upon the Churches. I desire not to make any men seem worse then they are, nor causelessly to open the faults of any. I profess to the world that it is not in an impatient aggravating of any sufferings of my own (which are small,) that I write this, but as the true stating of the case between us. If the matter of fact be not truly stated, the matter of right cannot be well determined. I hate false History.
Answ. 1. That is, to your Terms of Peace, and you being Judge. 2. Knowledg is oft constrained: It is no sin to know History, much less Publick matter of present fact, and least of all, that which we see and feel. Is it a sin to know when a man is in prison, or when his goods or books are distrained, &c? I the rather speak to this, because a Reverend Bishop tells me also of this wrong, as if those Bishops case were unlike to his; and citeth the words of the Historian that mentioneth the suffering of the Churches in Spain on that account, as if Maximus had but taken advantage of the Bishops spleen to Tyrannize, and prey upon the Churches. I desire not to make any men seem worse then they are, nor causelesly to open the faults of any. I profess to the world that it is not in an impatient aggravating of any sufferings of my own (which are small,) that I write this, but as the true stating of the case between us. If the matter of fact be not truly stated, the matter of right cannot be well determined. I hate false History.