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A reply to Mr. Tho. Beverley's answer to my reasons against his doctrine of…
A reply to Mr. Tho. Beverley's answer to my reasons against his doctrine of the thousand years middle kingdom, and of the conversion of the Jews by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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.
AD pag. 1. You say very well against catching at words, and surmising strange Opinions: But if an excellent Divine will speak strange and dangerous words, the Reader must have an Antidote, and it is time enough to forgive the Writer when he confesseth the Error of his words. He that speaketh ill, and meaneth well, should keep his meaning to himself till he can and will intelligibly express it.
AD pag. 1. You say very well against catching at words, and surmising strange Opinions: But if an excellent Divine will speak strange and dangerous words, the Reader must have an Antidote, and it is time enough to forgive the Writer when he confesseth the Errour of his words. He that speaketh ill, and meaneth well, should keep his meaning to himself till he can and will intelligibly express it.
To your pag 2. He were malignant that would not acknowledge your Candour: And it is an encouragement to us that differ from you, that you believe our part in that Kingdom which it is not given us yet to see. And as you profess your patient bearing of Contradictions, we should love each other the more for our likeness. Though I am noted to have too sharp a reproving style, I do profess that I can bear more than I use; yea, that I love Reproof and my Reprovers.
To your pag. 3. And your confidence of your right Interpretation of Prophecies, and of the blessed 1697 year, I say but 1. As Jeremiah to the Prophets of his time—Amen. My wishes accompany you further than my belief (but not to the unhappy end of your New Earth.) 2. And I know how natural it is for every man to be over-confident of his conceptions, and his way to be right in his own Eyes.