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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.
You add We cannot but wonder that any dares so expressly go against the very letter of Scripture,—but that we have done with wondering at Mr. Baxter's boldness.
You adde We cannot but wonder that any dares so expresly go against the very letter of Scripture,—but that we have done with wondering at Mr. Baxter's boldness.
Answ. This I may well put as your 14th. 1Untruth. Reader, try if you can find one syllable of what he speaks in all my book? Doth he that saith [prayer is but one of the means] contradict the letter of Jam. 1. 5. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask it of God? O how hard is it to know what spirit we are o•? That a man should go on in such dealing ⟨p. 50⟩as this? and make his own fictions the ground of such tragical exclamations when he hath done? Yea, he proceed.
Answ. This I may well put as your 14th. 1Untruth. Reader, try if you can find one syllable of what he speaks in all my book? Doth he that saith [prayer is but one of the means] contradict the letter of Iam. 1. 5. If any man lack wisdome, let him ask it of God? O how hard is it to know what spirit we are o•? That a man should go on in such dealing ⟨p. 50⟩as this? and make his own fictions the ground of such tragical exclamations when he hath done? Yea, he proceed.