A26864:726
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
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.
§. 81.
R. B. 1. IT is so rare a thing for men to manifest so much ingenuity and self denial and impartial love to the Truth, as freely to recant what they have once asserted when they find it a mistake, that if this had been your case, I would not have been one that should have blamed you for it, or charged you with unconstancy or levity. To err, is common to all men: but freely to recant it, is not so. I never write, but with a supposition that I shall manifest the weakness of my Intellect, and do that which needs reformation. 2. I did not so much as pretend you to be my Adversary; I did defend you, and not argue against you: and therefore you have little need to persuade me to have lower thoughts of our differences then I did express, or that you and I were no adversaries.
R. B. 1. IT is so rare a thing for men to manifest so much ingenuity and self denyal and impartial love to the Truth, as freely to recant what they have once asserted when they finde it a mistake, that if this had been your case, I would not have been one that should have blamed you for it, or charged you with unconstancy or levity. To err, is common to all men: but freely to recant it, is not so. I never write, but with a supposition that I shall manifest the weakness of my Intellect, and do that which needs reformation. 2. I did not so much as pretend you to be my Adversary; I did defend you, and not argue against you: and therefore you have little need to perswade me to have lower thoughts of our differences then I did express, or that you and I were no adversaries.
But though I make light of our seeming difference about sealing, I must entreat you to remember, that I not only maintain my former Assertion, that the Conclusion, I A. B. am Justified, is not de fide, but that I account it a matter of far greater moment.