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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. XX. Answered. This Exception is but a bundle of mistakes, and the fruit of your false interpretation of my design, 1. That I prove not what I say, is not true, when the many instances fully prove it, and you your self deny them not. 2. When I explain my self frequently and fully, who I do not mean by Dividers, and what separation I allow, you feign me to open my mind [very unwillingly,] and to [defend those whom I traduce,] that you may make men believe that I mean those whom I still profess that I mean not, and that you know my mind better than I my self. This is not true and righteous dealing.
EXCEPT. XXI. p. 12. Answered. When I say [Our presence at the prayers of the ⟨p. 83⟩Church, is no profession of Consent to all that is faulty in those prayers] he saith, [The Apostle thought otherwise in a like •ase of sitting at meat in an Idols Temple.]
Answ. Brother, of all the men that ever1 I had to do with, scarce any hath dealt so superficially, without saying any thing against the proofs which I lay down, no• seeming to take any notice of them. How can you choose but see your self, that by denying my proposition. 1. You make it unlawful to join with any Church or person in the World; and so would dissolve all Church-Communion and Family-worship; For do not all men sin in prayer? And must any man consent to sin?