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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.
EXCEPT. XI. Answered. 1. The word Sect (though oft taken but for one party in a division) was not by me applied to all the names before going, but to the last named only, and such other. 2. I spake nothing at all of the truth or falsehood of the Censurers words, but of the requitals that Censurers have by other mens Censures, which may be sharp and passionate, and a rebuke to the Censured, and modally1 Culpable, when the words are true. Yet I am content to undergo the Censure you here cast out of me, rather than to censure, that a Papist cannot go beyond a reprobate, unless you do, (as Mr. Perkins doth, to make it good,) be so charitable to all the millions else among them, as not to call them Papists, except they practically hold the most pernicious ⟨p. 40⟩opinions of their Councils and Divines. I confess I affect none of the honour of that Orthodoxness, which consisteth in sentencing millions and Kingdoms to Hell, whom I am unacquainted with.
EXCEPT. XI. Answered. 1. The word Sect (though oft taken but for one party in a division) was not by me applied to all the names before going, but to the last named only, and such other. 2. I spake nothing at all of the truth or falshood of the Censurers words, but of the requitals that Censurers have by other mens Censures, which may be sharp and passionate, and a rebuke to the Censured, and modally1 Culpable, when the words are true. Yet I am content to undergo the Censure you here cast out of me, rather than to censure, that a Papist cannot go beyond a reprobate, unless you do, (as Mr. Perkins doth, to make it good,) be so charitable to all the millions else among them, as not to call them Papists, except they practically hold the most pernicious ⟨p. 40⟩