Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

If you speak of a Command without Penalty, or with no other Penalty than such as is consistent with [Receiving, not despising, not Judging, and all the indulgence mentioned in the Text] then your very Distinction granteth us the Cause. But if you speak of [a Command with such Penalty us is inconsistent with the said Receiving and other indulgences] then this Branch of your Distinction as applied by you Resp. 2. is but the begging of the Question, it being such Commanding that we are proving to be forbidden by the Text—If there be no Power that may command such things any further than may stand with the Reception and other Indulgences of the Text, then must you not suppose that any Power may otherwise command them. But the Antecedent is true: Ergo ⟨p. 349⟩so is the consequent.—For the Minor, if Paul and the resident Pastors of the Church of Rome had no Power to command such things; further than may stand with the said Reception and indulgences, then no others have such Power. But Paul •nd the Resident Pastors of the Church of Rome had no such Power: Ergo, there are no others that have such. And so your Distinction being frivolous and fa••ious, the Argument stands good.

If you speak of a Command without Penalty, or with no other Penalty than such as is consistent with [Receiving, not despising, not Judging, and all the indulgence mentioned in the Text] then your very Distinction granteth us the Cause. But if you speak of [a Command with such Penalty us is inconsistent with the said• Receiving and other indulgences] then this Branch of your Distinction as applied by you Resp. 2. is but the begging of the Question, it being such Commanding that we are proving to be forbidden by the Text—If there be no Power that may command such things any further than may stand with the Reception and other Indulgences of the Text, then must you not suppose that any Power may otherwise command them. But the Antecedent is true: Ergo ⟨p. 349⟩so is the consequent.—For the Minor, if Paul and the resident Pastors of the Church of Rome had no Power to command such things; further than may stand with the said Reception and indulgences, then no others have such Power. But Paul •nd the Resident Pastors of the Church of Rome had no such Power: Ergo, there are no others that have such. And so your Distinction being frivolous and faious, the Argument stands good.