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More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…
More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Which sort you are of, I know not: I read your name, and that you are a Sojourner; but finding that you write not as a tender Doubter, who desireth to be concealed, but as a Confident gain-sayer of the Christian Verity, and not knowing how safely to send a Letter to the place where you say you sojourn, I have thought that it will be most pleasing to you to come to you by the same way, as the book did which you except against (which was written upon the provocation of a paper Scattered among the Scholars of Oxford, when the Oxford Oath and Act were made in the time of the great Plague, as by one that was unsatisfied in the Grounds of Christianity; but I strongly suspected was written by a Papist, it was made so suitable to their designs.)
Which sort you are of, I know not: I read your name, and that you are a Sojourner; but finding that you write not as a tender Doubter, who desireth to be concealed, but as a Confident gain-sayer of the Christian Verity, and not knowing how safely to send a Letter to the place where you say you sojourn, I have thought that it will be most pleasing to you to come to you by the same way, as the book did which you except against (which was written upon the provocation of a paper Scattered among the Schollars of Oxford, when the Oxford Oath and Act were made in the time of the great Plague, as by one that was unsatisfied in the Grounds of Christianity; but I strongly suspected was written by a Papist, it was made so suitable to their designs.)
In two things you have not dealt ⟨p. 10⟩righteously and ingeniously with me.
1. In that you have not answered the Grounded Proofs of the Christian Verity which I have laid down, but nibble at the Answer to some Objections, which is not the way of a Lover of the truth.