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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
Is it not a thing famously known in England, that this middle way of Universal Redemption hath been by Writing and Disputing and preaching maintained by as excellent Divines for Learning, Judgement, holiness, and powerful Preaching (as far as we can judge) as ever England bred? Its famously known that Bp Usher was for it, that Bp Davenant, Bp Carleton, Bp Hall, Dr Ward, Dr Goad, Mr Balcanquall, being all the Divines that were sent to the Synod of Dort from Britain, were for it: and Davenant, Hall, and Ward, have wrote for it: that those holy, renowned Preachers, Dr Preston (of which read Mr Tho. Ball in his life), Dr Stoughton, Mr Will. Whately, Mr Will. Fenner, M John Ball, Mr Ezek. Culverw•ll, Mr Rich. Vines, &c. were for it: And many yet living do ordinarily declare their judgment that way. And are not these more then unus Baxterus? An excellent Writing of Joannes Be•gius to that end, ⟨image 7⟩was lately translated here into English, and published by Mr Mauritius Bohemus, a Divine residing in Leicestershire. 5. Is it not famously known that the Divines of Bremen go this way, and the Duke of Brandenburg's Divines, & that Wendeline complaineth to Spanhemius of it: and that Ludovicus Crocius, Mat Martinius, and Iselburge (besides the British Divines gave it in as their judgement at the Synod of Dort; so that the Synod hath nothing against it; and nothing but what this unus Baxterus, and all of his mind do readily subscribe to herein. Nay, is it not manifested that Dr Twiss himself hath frequently written for it? 6. Can he that knows the Lutheran and Arminian doctrine believe both these, that the Arminians in Belgia are pleased with Amyraldus Method, and yet that nullâ parte haeret apud Lutheranos? 7. Can he that hath read what Davenant, Camero, Amyraldus, Lud. Crocius, &c. have written against the Arminians, and what Grotius, Tilenus, and others of them have written against them, be yet persuaded that the Arminians are pleased with Amyraldus Method, any further then to be less displeased with it then with some others? 8. When Mr Woodbridge doth profess but that ⟨image 7⟩he is for Universal Redemption in Davenant's sense, [especially since he read Daily, &c.] doth this Learned man well infer thence, that he was Daily's proselyte, when the contrary is intimated, yea is the [fatetur see nondum concoquentem Amyraldi Methodum.] true or false? 9.