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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.
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.
- 114 Untruth.
For what follows in justification of his unwarrantable conceit exceeds all bounds of sobriety,—whither will not Pride and overweening carry a man? He that had so trampled upon his brethren without any regard to their innocency or sufferings, now speaks but slightly of our Lord Christ himself.]