A27006:1825
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
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.
§ 223. When this Reply was read, Dr. Gunning spake a few Words against the length of it; and […] a Copy of it, that he might take it home with him; to bring in an Answer the next Day. In the mean time I urged Dr. Pierson to perform his Promise, in taking the Opponents part, and making good their Impositions; and so as last they came to it. Their Disputations, to avoid the Readers Confusion, […] co•e last after our next Reply.
§ 223. When this Reply was read, Dr. Gunning spake a few Words against the length of it; and 〈…〉 a Copy of it, that he might take it home with him; to bring in an Answer the next Day. In the mean time I urged Dr. Pierson to perform his Promise, in taking the Opponents part, and making good their Impositions; and so as last they came to it. Their Disputations, to avoid the Readers Confusion, 〈…〉 co•e last after our next Reply.
§ 224. The next day Dr. Gunning brought in large Discourse, in answer to our last Reply. His Answer it self […] of in•u••ing Words, especially because I tried the Words [begging the Question] (though sufficiently explained) as applied to them that were Respondents. I told them that I confessed it was not an usual Speech, but I thought it not unfit; and that when the Respondent will needs have the thing ⟨p. 350⟩questioned to be put into the Subject as past dispute, which should be in the Predicate, and so would forestall the Opponents proof, it is not unfitly called a begging of the question: But for this I was indifferent: They should have it other Terms if they pleased, it being a Matter that our Cause is not concerned in. I took Dr. Gunning's Paper home, and brought them an Answer the next day we met; and though I took not a Copy of his Paper, for want of time (and he would not lend it me after) yet you may see the Sum and Sense of all his Answer in the following Reply, (which, as the former, my Brethren read over and approved of).