A26864:535
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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§ 54.
I Had thought also at the first view, that it would have been necessary to have confuted Mr. Blake's 31. Chapt. when I found this Title: A man in Covenant with God, and received into the Universal Church Visible, needs no more to give him access to, and interest in particular Visible Churches. But I know not whether he mean the access and interest of a stranger in passage or a Transient Member, or of a fixed Member. If of the latter, I should have proved moreover that there is Necessary, both his Cohabitation, and his Consent to be a Member of that Church; and his consent to submit to the particular Pastors of that Church as his Teachers and Spiritual Guides in the Lord. But I find in the following pages, Mr. Blake doth acknowledge all this himself.
I Had thought also at the first view, that it would have been necessary to have confuted Mr. Blakes 31. Chapt. when I found this Title: A man in Covenant with God, and received into the Ʋniversal Church Visible, needs no more to give him accesss to, and interest in particular Visible Churches. But I know not whether he mean the access and interest of a stranger in passage or a Transient Member, or of a fixed Member. If of the latter, I should have proved moreover that there is Necessary, both his Cohabitation, and his Consent to be a Member of that Church; and his consent to submit to the particular Pastors of that Church as his Teachers and Spiritual Guides in the Lord. But I finde in the following pages, Mr. Blake doth acknowledge all this himself.
I shall therefore pass on to some other subject; only remembering Mr. Bl. that as it is not Number of Arguments but Weight that will carry the Cause, so it is not Number that I trust to: and therefore if any one of those 26 Arguments foregoing be good, though 25 be bad, I must needs think the Cause bad which I argue against.