A26860:57
An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…
An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal sovereignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal soveraignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
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.
Sir, I Received not yours of Septemb. 19, 1681. till Octob. 21. through the miscarriage of one that should have delivered it. What you have to say to Mr. Clarkson, write to himself and not to me: As to your call for more Answer to your Books, you shall have more. I had wrote one long ago, and cast it by: Men are weary of our Controversies, and had rather all of us gave over. But if I should show the error and impertinency of every such word in your great Book, it might be a years work; when I look not to live so long; and it might make so great a Volume in Folio, that few I think would buy or read! And what great good will it do the world, to tell them how grossly you abuse the Chuch, and how confidently and voluminously you err? As to your charge of Slandering you, and wronging the Church, and being unqualified for forgiveness, I have the same Accusations from Quakers, Anabaptists, Antinomians and Papists, almost in the same words: Within these two hours an ancient Doctor sent me as hard words [As being a self condemned person, to be forsaken, as opposing the Commands of God, and the Faith of Jesus,] for not yielding to his [asserting of the Seventh-day-Sabbath, and condemning the Lords-days observation.] I have these thirty six years lived under such Accusations: It is no new thing for Seducers to use affrighting words instead of proof, and to say, [Except ye be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses, you cannot be saved. It's the cry of most Sects, [You cannot be saved but in our way] Sir, No man living hath more cause to be loath to err, and to be willing to know the Truth. I am as sure, as I can be, if I know any thing of my own mind, that I am not only willing to know the Truth, but to know it at a far dearer rate than it was ever like to cost me in this world. I am sure that I have not been slothful in seeking it: I am sure that I would joyfully recant any Error that you or any man can convince me of, with hearty thanks for so great a benefit. I have considered your Books; you are confident of my erring and wronging the Church; and I am as confident of yours: that you are a Misleader of an extraordinary size, that would set up an Universal humane Supreme Government, which Protestants have taken for Popery and Treason against Christ;
Sir, I Received not yours of Septemb. 19, 1681. till Octob. 21. through the miscarriage of one that should have delivered it. What you have to say to Mr. Clarkson, write to himself and not to me: As to your call for more Answer to your Books, you shall have more. I had wrote one long ago, and cast it by: Men are weary of our Controversies, and had rather all of us gave over. But if I should shew the errour and impertinency of every such word in your great Book, it might be a years work; when I look not to live so long; and it might make so great a Volume in Folio, that few I think would buy or read! And what great good will it do the world, to tell them how grossly you abuse the Chuch, and how confidently and voluminously you err? As to your charge of Slandering you, and wronging the Church, and being unqualified for forgiveness, I have the same Accusations from Quakers, Anabaptists, Antinomians and Papists, almost in the same words: Within these two hours an ancient Doctor sent me as hard words [As being a self condemned person, to be forsaken, as opposing the Commands of God, and the Faith of Iesus,] for not yielding to his [asserting of the Seventh-day-Sabbath, and condemning the Lords-days observation.] I have these thirty six years lived under such Accusations: It is no new thing for Seducers to use affrighting words instead of proof, and to say, [Except ye be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses, you cannot be saved. It's the cry of most Sects, [You cannot be saved but in our way] Sir, No man living hath more cause to be loath to err, and to be willing to know the Truth. I am as sure, as I can be, if I know any thing of my own minde, that I am not only willing to know the Truth, but to know it at a far dearer rate than it was ever like to cost me in this world. I am sure that I have not been slothful in seeking it: I am sure that I would joyfully recant any Errour that you or any man can convince me of, with hearty thanks for so great a benefit. I have considered your Books; you are confident of my erring and wronging the Church; and I am as confident of yours: that you are a Misleader of an extraordinary size, that would set up an Vniversal humane Supreme Government, which Protestants have taken for Popery and Treason against Christ;