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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. XXXVIII. Answered. When I tell you of some that have run through all sects, and turned Infidels, you1 add another Untruth, that I thus reproach a whole party with the miscarriages of some few, unless you mean by a whole party, all that are of that opinion which I confute: For all the Separatists are not for it. And so what ever opinion in the World I shall gain-say, you may say that I contradict a whole Party, that is, the Party that holdeth that opinion. But, brother, doth every one reproach you, that telleth you of your danger, and would save you from infidelity and hell? If the common people should tell you that you reproach their whole party, when you preach to them of the tendency and effects of sin and error, you would easily see the fault in them. Your talk of a prostituted Conscience I forgive: But if you must not be told of the dangerous tendency of an unsound doctrine, lest you seem to be reproached, you will leave your selves in a sad condition, when your cure is rejected as a reproach.
EXCEPT. XXXVIII. Answered. When I tell you of some that have run through all sects, and turned Infidels, you1 adde another Untruth, that I thus reproach a whole party with the miscarriages of some few, unless you mean by a whole party, all that are of that opinion which I confure: For all the Separatists are not for it. And so what ever opinion in the World I shall gain-say, you may say that I contradict a whole Party, that is, the Party that holdeth that opinion. But, brother, doth every one reproach you, that telleth you of your danger, and would save you from infidelity and hell? If the common people should tell you that you reproach their whole party, when you preach to them of the tendency and effects of sin and error, you would easily see the fault in them. Your talk of a prostituted Conscience I forgive: But if you must not be told of the dangerous tendency of an unsound doctrine, lest you seem to be reproached, you will leave your selves in a sad condition, when your cure is rejected as a reproach.