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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. XXIII. p. 13. Answered. If you dissent, why did you answer none of the six Reasons I gave for what I said, nor seem to take notice of them? But only when I say [It were easy to instance in unseasonable and imprudent words of truth, spoken to Princes ⟨p. 86⟩which have raised persecutions of long continuance, ruined Churches, caused the death of multitudes, &c. Upon which you put four questions, To which I answer, 1. The flattery of some, will not justify the sinful imprudence of others. 2. If you should be guilty of the blood of thousands by one sin, will it excuse you that another was more guilty? 3. Elijah, Micaiah, and John Baptist, spake not unseasonably or imprudently: Nor is all imprudent that bringeth suffering or death. 4. Gospel Ministers may follow them that spake prudently; but unseasonable and imprudent speaking, is not following them. I have recited elsewhere a saying even of Dr. Th. Jackson, that It is not because great men have not sins and wrath enough, that there are no more Martyrs under Christian Rulers; but because there be not John Baptists enough to tell them of them (to that sense.)
EXCEPT. XXIII. p. 13. Answered. If you dissent, why did you answer none of the six Reasons I gave for what I said, nor seem to take notice of them? But only when I say [It were easie to instance in unseasonable and imprudent words of truth, spoken to Princes ⟨p. 86⟩which have raised persecutions of long continuance, ruined Churches, caused the death of multitudes, &c. Upon which you put four questions, To which I answer, 1. The flattery of some, will not justifie the sinful imprudence of others. 2. If you should be guilty of the blood of thousands by one sin, will it excuse you that another was more guilty? 3. Elijah, Micaiah, and Iohn Baptist, spake not unseasonably or imprudently: Nor is all imprudent that bringeth suffering or death. 4. Gospel Ministers may follow them that spake prudently; but unseasonable and imprudent speaking, is not following them. I have recited elsewhere a saying even of Dr. Th. Iackson, that It is not because great men have not sins and wrath enough, that there are no more Martyrs under Christian Rulers; but because there be not John Baptists enough to tell them of them (to that sense.)