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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
Text 1 › Chapter 6: Of his venturous report of Bishop Ushers censure of me.
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.
2. Should one ask him whom he heard this from, do you think we should get a satisfying answer? No one is here named.
3. It is possible Bishop Usher upon the coming forth of my Aphorisms (which had many crudities, and many quarrelled at it more than there was cause,) might fear any thing that looked like unusual.
3. It is possible Bishop Ʋsher upon the coming forth of my Aphorisms (which had many crudities, and many quarrelled at it more than there was cause,) might fear any thing that looked like unusual.
4. But I ask the Reader whether this be a probable report, when he understandeth,
1. That I was for some weeks familiar with the Bishop, and he never spake a syllable to me of such importance. 2. That when Doct. Kendall and I were together with him, and our question was what was Augustins judgment of Redemption, Perseverance, and some other things, he expressly averred that my Assertion in all those was the truth. 3. But I imagine this following might be the occasion of the report. Dr. Kendall had some acquaintance with and interest in the said Arch-Bishop, and he having written two disputations against me, I had answered the first, and had drawn up part of the answer to the second: But Mr. Vines and Dr. Kendall desired me to meet at Bishop Ushers lodging in order to the ending of our difference. There the Bishop motioned that we should promise to write against each other no more: which we did, and I cast by what I had begun. But yet Doct. K. after in a Latin Treatise broke that promise (which occasioned my verses in the end of my Dispute of the Object of Justifying Faith against Mr. Warner, which some understood not.) Now it is not unlikely that the Bishop might say that if Dr. K. and I persisted in that Dispute, it would but trouble the Church. I am sure he said no more to me, nor so much.