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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…
Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state of that communion opened, and the questions discussed, whether there be any displeasure at sin, or repentance for it in Heaven : with a parallel of the case of using a faulty translation of Scripture, and a faulty liturgy.Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state of that communion opened, and the questions discussed, whether there be any displeasure at sin, or repentance for it in Heaven : with a parallel of the case of using a faulty translation of Scripture, and a faulty lyturgy.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1684
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.
SECT. 4.
I Told you I have no leisure to write Books for my self now: Thus far I have written for Truth, and Love, and Unity. As to all your Charges against my self, I say again, I will not justify my self: My naming Dr. Owen, which is so heinously taken, I have told you the occasion of. To which I truly add, 1. I did it as a distinctive note, that the Readers might know what it was that I answered. 2. And I that use to put my Name to my Writing, never dreamt that it would have been taken any worse to name him, than to confute a Writing that by common, uncontrolled supposition bore his Name. Had I thought it would have been taken so ill (while the Super-Conformists bear far more) it's two to one but I had forborne it. And now it's done, I am yet but little wiser, when I think of the public Cause fore-described, I am ready to think it should weigh down all your contrary reasons: When I feel in my self an inward averseness to strive with any by ungrateful words, and hear from you how ill it's taken, then I dislike it: And my own selfish loathness to be the object of the hard thoughts, and talk of so many of you, is some bias to my judgment. I wholly follow the Rule you mention, to choose that which doth most good, and least hurt: And truly the reverence of your own, and some others judgment, telling me that it doth more hurt than good, doth turn the Scales, and make me repent that I named the Doctor.
I Told you I have no leisure to write Books for my self now: Thus far I have written for Truth, and Love, and Unity. As to all your Charges against my self, I say again, I will not justify my self: My naming Dr. Owen, which is so heinously taken, I have told you the occasion of. To which I truly add, 1. I did it as a distinctive note, that the Readers might know what it was that I answered. 2. And I that use to put my Name to my Writing, never dreamt that it would have been taken any worse to name him, than to confute a Writing that by common, uncontrolled supposition bore his Name. Had I thought it would have been taken so ill (while the Super-Conformists bear far more) it's two to one but I had forborn it. And now it's done, I am yet but little wiser, when I think of the publick Cause fore-described, I am ready to think it should weigh down all your contrary reasons: When I feel in my self an inward averseness to strive with any by ungrateful words, and hear from you how ill it's taken, then I dislike it: And my own selfish lothness to be the object of the hard thoughts, and talk of so many of you, is some byass to my judgment. I wholly follow the Rule you mention, to choose that which doth most good, and least hurt: And truly the reverence of your own, and some others judgment, telling me that it doth more hurt than good, doth turn the Scales, and make me repent that I named the Doctor.