A26859:97
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.
§. 7. Is it not a very uncharitable thing of you, that when it's I whom you have called to account, you flatly deny or shun to give me an Answer to my Case, and to the Case of all others that preach only in Parishes, where few of the People can hear in the Church. Why ask you [To what purpose should you resolve those Queries?] I Answer, to show me whether my preaching be my Sin, or Duty: And whether you justly or unjustly accused me, and all such others; was it not to this purpose that I craved your Answer?
§. 7. Is it not a very uncharitable thing of you, that when it's I whom you have called to account, you flatly deny or shun to give me an Answer to my Case, and to the Case of all others that preach only in Parishes, where few of the People can hear in the Church. Why ask you [To what purpose should you resolve those Queries?] I Answer, to shew me whether my preaching be my Sin, or Duty: And whether you justly or unjustly accused me, and all such others; was it not to this purpose that I craved your Answer?
2. And do you not know, that in the Bills of Mortality it appeareth that the Parishes within the Walls are but about the seventh part of the whole; and the outer Parishes, which are thus great, are about six parts: And in these Parishes it is not the tenth part in some and the sixth in most that can come within the Church to hear. And it is pity that one half, or two or three parts of such a City as London should be left like the Indians without any public Teaching and Worship, and such as you say so much for it.
2. And do you not know, that in the Bills of Mortality it appeareth that the Parishes within the Walls are but about the seventh part of the whole; and the outer Parishes, which are thus great, are about six parts: And in these Parishes it is not the tenth part in some and the sixth in most that can come within the Church to hear. And it is pity that one half, or two or three parts of such a City as London should be left like the Indians without any publick Teaching and Worship, and such as you say so much for it.