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Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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how zealous they are against a Toleration of Errors; and yet how impatient of being told of their own. Other mens should be cut down with the Sword, and theirs may not be plainly confuted by the Word: nor can we so skilf••ry butter and oil our words, but that we shall be taken for contemners of our Brethren. Not that I am free from the same disease: but (though proud hearers judge him a proud speaker that deals plainly with them, yet) I can truly say of that sin, to the praise of my Physician, as Seneca Epist. 8. Salutares admonitions velut medicamentorum utilium compositions litteris mando, esse illas efficaces in meis ulceribus expertus: quae etiamsi persanata non sunt, serpere desierunt. Rectum iter quod serò cognovi, & lassus errando, aliis monstro. And for my own stile in writing, it is but such as I would use in free speaking, if any Brethren were present: and I think they would then bear it. I would not be furious, nor yet would I be blockish; nor speak as without life about the matters of life. I say of earnestness as Seneca of wit, Epist. 75. Qualis sermo meus esset si unà sederemus, aut ambularemus, tales esse Epistolas meas volo, quae nihil habeant accersitum, aut fictum. Si fieri posset quid sentiam ostendere, quam loqui, mallem. Etiamsi disputarem, nec supploderem pedem, &c. hoc unum plane tibi approbare vellem, omnia me illa sentire quae dicerem, nec tantum sentire sed amare. Non jejuna esse & arida volo, quae de rebus tam magnis dicentur. Neque enim Philosophia ingenio renuntiat. Haec sit propositi nostri summa: quod sentimus, loquamur; quod loquimur sentiamus.
how zealous they are against a Toleration of Errours; and yet how impatient of being told of their own. Other mens should be cut down with the Sword, and theirs may not be plainly confuted by the Word: nor can we so skilf••ry butter and oyl our words, but that we shall be taken for contemners of our Brethren. Not that I am free from the same disease: but (though proud hearers judge him a proud speaker that deals plainly with them, yet) I can truly say of that sin, to the praise of my Physition, as Seneca Epist. 8. Salutares admonitiones velut medicamentorum utilium compositiones litteris mando, esse illas efficaces in meis ulceribus expertus: quae etiamsi persanata non sunt, serpere desierunt. Rectum iter quod serò cognovi, & lassus errando, aliis monstro. And for my own stile in writing, it is but such as I would use in free speaking, if any Brethren were present: and I think they would then bear it. I would not be furious, nor yet would I be blockish; nor speak as without life about the matters of life. I say of earnestness as Seneca of wit, Epist. 75. Qualis sermo meus esset si unà sederemus, aut ambularemus, tales esse Epistolas meas volo, quae nihil habeant accersitum, aut fictum. Si fieri posset quid sentiam ostendere, quam loqui, mallem. Etiamsi disputarem, nec supploderem pedem, &c. hoc unum plane tibi approbare vellem, omnia me illa sentire quae dicerem, nec tantum sentire sed amare. Non jejuna esse & arida volo, quae de rebus tam magnis dicentur. Neque enim Philosophia ingenio renuntiat. Haec sit propositi nostri summa: quod sentimus, loquamur; quod loquimur sentiamus.