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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
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And whether more credit is to be given to the judgement of this Learned man, against Camero, or to the general applause of the Learned, Pious and Peaceable Divines of most Protestant Churches? For instance, such as Bp Hall's, who in his Peace-maker, p. 49. saith of him, that he was [the Learnedst Divine, be it spoken without envy, that the Church of Scotland hath afforded in this last age.] 14. Whether this Learned man had not forgotten his former Triumph in the supposed unsuccessfulness of Amyrald's Method, and the paucity of his partakers or approvers, when he wrote this in deep sorrow for the Churches of France, [Seriò ingemisco Patriae & Ecclesiis in ea reformatis, quod jam totos viginti annos Methodus Amyraldi impunè regna verit: nemine intrà Galliam hiscere audente, aut ullo vindice veritatis ibi exurgente] & do these words show his desire of Peace or Contention in the Church? 15. Whether it be truth that he saith, that all the Divines of the ⟨image 9⟩Assembly at Westminster were against Amyraldus Method, when Mr Vines hath often and openly owned Davenant's way of Universal Redemption; and others yet living are known to be for it? 16. Whether it be proved from the cited words of their Confession, c. 8. §. 5. that such was their judgement, when they express no such thing? And I have spoken with an eminent Divine, yet living, that was of the Assembly, who assured me that they purposely avoided determining that Controversy, and some of them profest themselves for the middle way of Universal Redemption. 17. Is there one man in Oxford or Cambridge (besides himself) that believes his next words, [pari obelo confodiunt hanc Methodum quotquot sunt bodie Doctores & Professors Oxoniae & Cantabrigiae] except on supposition that the foregoing words be untrue which pari relateth to? 18. Is it probable that Dr Twiss was an enemy to that doctrine of Redemption which he hath so often asserted, viz [That Christ dyed for all men, so far as to purchase them pardon and salvation on condition they would repent and believe; and for the Elect, so far further as to procure them faith and repentance it self:] ⟨image 9⟩which he hath oft in many Writings as to Mr Cranford's charge concerning his severe accusation of Dallaeus, and judging his very heart to be guilty of such dissimulation, as [that he wrote not seriously, but contrary to what he thought, and that nothing could be more illiterate.