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The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…
The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
To the reader: TO THE READER. A POSTSCRIPT to the Second Book.
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.
I must desire those Conformists that will write the next friendly debate, and will charge Heresy on the Non-Conformists, that they will lay the charge on none, but the guilty; and that they take not all whose Names are prefixed to be of the judgment of Dr. Crispe (a Conformist): For I am past doubt, that Four or Five of them are against it. If you ask, why then did they give their Names to be hanged up like a Sign before the Door of a House of Seduction, it's like they have something more to say ⟨image 76⟩for it than I know of: But their Words show you that they only testify the Sermons to be the Drs. own. They are men of Peace, and inclined to gratify others in attesting a truth, and I suppose, intended not to promote untruth by it.
I must desire those Conformists that will write the next friendly debate, and will charge Heresy on the Non-Conformists, that they will lay the charge on none, but the guilty; and that they take not all whose Names are prefixed to be of the judgment of Dr. Crispe (a Conformist): For I am past doubt, that Four or Five of them are against it. If you ask, why then did they give their Names to be hanged up like a Sign before the Door of a House of Seduction, it's like they have something more to say ⟨image 76⟩for it than I know of: But their Words shew you that they only testifie the Sermons to be the Drs. own. They are men of Peace, and inclined to gratifie others in attesting a truth, and I suppose, intended not to promote untruth by it.
But I see the corrupting Design is of late, grown so high, that what seemed these Thirty Four Years suppressed, now threateneth as a torrent to overthrow the Gospel, and Christian Faith, and to deny the true Office of Christ as Mediator and his Grace and Righteousness, by seeming ignorantly to extol them▪ And Satan designeth to make us a common scorn to Papists and Malignants, by the palpable grossness of such mens undeniable Errors. And therefore I dare neither give them my Name, nor be silent in such a common scandal and danger, while I can speak and write.