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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
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.
Dr. Stillingfleet's Answer to Mr. Baxter's Letter.
SIR,
I Lately received a Letter from you,1 wherein you complain of my exposing you to the Magistrates and the World, as one guilty of sinful Separation; whereas I never mentioned your name, when I Preached, and when I Printed the Sermon, I have quoted it several times against Separation.2 But if your meaning he, that you think your self concerned in those practises which I charge with that guilt,3 I should have been very glad to have found in your Letter an Answer to those Reasons in my Sermon which moved me to judg as I then did, and still do concerning them, Which in my opinion had been a far more likely way for your Conviction, which you seem to desire in your Letter, than my Answering those Queries you propose; many of which do very little relate to the matter in debate between us. What you mean by knowing their capacity for whom I preached and wrote, I am not willing to understand; but if I have any, the single Question between you and me,4