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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
When I had given in few words, a full and plain answer to the Papists about our separation from their Church, and remembered how many Volumes they have troubled the World with, by obscuring our plain and1 ordinary answer, I told them, that must have Volumes to hide the sense, that if this answer seem not plain and full to them, it is because they understand not Christian sense and reason; and not for want of plainness in the matter, or through defectiveness as to satisfy ⟨p. 36⟩a reasonable impartial man. This, brother, chargeth this saying, to be [insolent, and from intolerable Pride] because I dare so Charge another with want of Christian sense and reason, &c.
When I had given in few words, a full and plain answer to the Papists about our separation from their Church, and remembred how many Volumes they have troubled the World with, by obscuring our plain and1 ordinarie answer, I told them, that must have Volumes to hide the sense, that if this answer seem not plain and full to them, it is because they understand not Christian sense and reason; and not for want of plainess in the matter, or through defectiveness as to satisfie ⟨p. 36⟩a reasonable impartial man. This, brother, chargeth this saying, to be [insolent, and from intolerable Pride] because I dare so Charge another with want of Christian sense and reason, &c.
- 1Whether it be intolerable Pride to say that the Papists understand not Christian sense and reason.Whether it be intollerable Pride to say that the Papists understand not Christian sense and reason.