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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 is the 16th. visible Untruth. 1Indeed here are are two gross untruths together. 1. He changeth the subject into the predicate, and then affirmeth me so to have spoken. I said [It is ordinary for such fanciful and melancholy persons, to take deep apprehensions for Revelations, and if a Text come into their mind, to think it is by an extraordinary motion of the spirit. And he feigneth me to say, that they that ordinarily receive comfort by suggested texts are melancholy. Is it all one to say, It is ordinary for melancholy persons to pray, to fear, to err, &c. And, They that ordinarily pray, fear, err, are melancholy.] Again, Brother, this is not well.
Answ. This is the 16th. visible Untruth. 1Indeed here are are two gross untruths together. 1. He changeth the subject into the predicate, and then affirmeth me so to have spoken. I said [It is ordinary for such fanciful and melancholy persons, to take deep apprehensions for Revelations, and if a Text come into their mind, to think it is by an extraordinary motion of the spirit. And he feigneth me to say, that they that ordinarily receive comfort by suggested texts are melancholy. Is it all one to say, It is ordinary for melancholy persons to pray, to fear, to erre, &c. And, They that ordinarily pray, fear, erre, are melancholy.] Again, Brother, this is not well.
- 116 Untruth.
2. He feigneth me to speak of them that [ordinarily receive Comfort] when I have no such word, but speak of them that would draw others into error and separation by confident asserting false expositions of Scripture as set on their mind by revelation from the spirit. This is not well neither.
2. He feigneth me to speak of them that [ordinarily receive Comfort] when I have no such word, but speak of them that would draw others into error and separation by confident asserting false expositions of Scripture as set on their mind by reveltion from the spirit. This is not well neither.