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Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…
Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions of divers learned and reverend brethren / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Whether Works are a Condition of Justification? And so whether we a… › Part
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Answ. This is one passage which I understand by your Preface to you Sermons on John 17. you looked for thanks for: and I do freely thank you for it: for the world is such now, as that I must take my self beholden to any man that doth injure me with moderation and modesty. But you might have done that justice to us Opinionists, as to have put [any causes at all] instead of [efficient causes] when we had so often told you (the Orthodox) that we disclaimed all true causality; and then your Reader would have been ready to hope that we are free also from the finer Popery as well as the gross. But since I have heard of late times, what it is that goes under the name of Antichristianity and Popery, even with many that are able to call themselves Orthodox, and others that dissent from them, worse then Opinionists; I confess I begin to have charitable thoughts of a man that is but freed from the charge of gross Popery: and if those tongues should free him also from the imputation of all the finer Popery, I should begin to suspect that somewhat is amiss.
Answ. This is one passage which I understand by your Preface to you Sermons on John 17. you lookt for thanks for: and I do freely thank you for it: for the world is such now, as that I must take my self beholden to any man that doth injure me with moderation and modesty. But you might have done that justice to us Opinionists, as to have put [any causes at all] instead of [efficient causes] when we had so often told you (the Orthodox) that we disclaimed all true causality; and then your Reader would have been ready to hope that we are free also from the finer Popery as well as the gross. But since I have heard of late times, what it is that goes under the name of Antichristianity and Popery, even with many that are able to call themselves Orthodox, and others that dissent from them, worse then Opinionists; I confess I begin to have charitable thoughts of a man that is but freed from the charge of gross Popery: and if those tongues should free him also from the imputation of all the finer Popery, I should begin to suspect that somewhat is amiss.