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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. XIV. (Hereafter I must1 number them, for he is weary of it) Answered. This hath little worthy observation, but his 12th. Untruth, viz. that [by mentioning the separatist as a distinct body of men, from 2the Antinomian, Quaker, and Anabaptist, it is evident I can mean no other, but my Presbyterian and Congregational brethren] which he follows with An Appeal to God against this Slanderer, and earnestly prayeth that he would please to rebuke him.
- 112 Untruth.
- 2Whom I mean by Dividing; And of his Curse.
Whether this earnest prayer be a Curse? and whether it be like to that rule, to pray for them that curse us, and whether this brother himself doth not in these very words put his error into his earnest prayer, even in print, and so verify what he would so vehemently gainsay (to say nothing of the Common fame in London, that he that is famed to be the Author of these Exceptions, kept a day of Humiliation about me and my book) I leave to the Readers observation. And also whether this earnest prayer (or Curse) and this bold Appeal to God, be not profane, and rather a fruit of passion, than charitable zeal? And whether he here knew what spirit he was of?
Whether this earnest prayer be a Curse? and whether it be like to that rule, to pray for them that curse us, and whether this brother himself doth not in these very words put his error into his earnest prayer, even in print, and so verifie what he would so vehemently gainsay (to say nothing of the Common fame in London, that he that is famed to be the Author of these Exceptions, kept a day of Humiliation about me and my book) I leave to the Readers observation. And also whether this earnest prayer (or Curse) and this bold Appeal to God, be not prophane, and rather a fruit of passion, than charitable zeal? And whether he here knew what spirit he was of?