Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…

Fore-seeing this scandal, I humbly address my self to such Accusers with this answer following.

[Take not verbal differences for real: No doubt but this Persons Error is merely verbal: All Mens Studies go not one way: It's like he is not versed in Philosophers, and Schoolmens Writings, that use Displicence and Complacence for mere Nolition and Volition, Hatred, or Aversation, and Love. And though he knew that Scripture, and Christian Writers commonly speak that which he accuseth, he was someway biassed to think that I used the same words in a worse sense than Scripture, and all Writers do (though I excluded sorrow:) And his interesting in his Error, [The general received Opinion of all that he hath met with] doth but signify what sort of Men, and how few he hath met with, or how few Writers on such Subjects he hath read, and remembered, (for doubtless he doth not knowingly abuse them.) And when did all the Protestants, or Nonconformists choose him to represent them? why is not my word as valid on the contrary, who remember not one Man, Protestant, or Papist, or Heathen that is for the Immortality of the Soul, that is, of the Opinion which he expresseth; except those few that hold that non datur verè malum, There is no Evil in the World, but all that we call sin and punishment is good, and miscalled evil by us in darkness, but all willed by God, and those in Heaven? yet even Hobbs, and Peter Sterry confess a good fort of Evil. And I doubt not but this Brother is against what he speaketh himself.

[Take not verbal differences for real: No doubt but this Persons Errour is meerly verbal: All Mens Studies go not one way: It's like he is not vers'd in Philosophers, and Schoolmens Writings, that use Displicence and Complacence for meer Nolition and Volition, Hatred, or Aversation, and Love. And though he knew that Scripture, and Christian Writers commonly speak that which he accuseth, he was someway byassed to think that I used the same words in a worse sense than Scripture, and all Writers do (though I excluded sorrow:) And his interesting in his Errour, [The general received Opinion of all that he hath met with] doth but signify what sort of Men, and how few he hath met with, or how few Writers on such Subjects he hath read, and remembred, (for doubtless he doth not knowingly abuse them.) And when did all the Protestants, or Nonconformists chuse him to represent them? why is not my word as valid on the contrary, who remember not one Man, Protestant, or Papist, or Heathen that is for the Immortality of the Soul, that is, of the Opinion which he expresseth; except those few that hold that non datur verè malum, There is no Evil in the World, but all that we call sin and punishment is good, and miscalled evil by us in darkness, but all willed by God, and those in Heaven? yet even Hobbs, and Peter Sterry confess a good fort of Evil. And I doubt not but this Brother is against what he speaketh himself.