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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 am sorry that he hath wronged the Memory of such good men as Mr. Fowler, and Mr. Cole, by telling the World how unstudied, and yet how confident they have been in some points. But he did worse in citing Dr Manton, that incurred their Censure for defending me in that very Pulpit, where he saith I Preached against such accusers as he; and was wholly of my judgment. And reciting ArchBishop Usher, who perused my Confession written against the Antinomians, and altered not a word in it, before I published it; I got him and Mr. Gataker to read it (and it was the last Work that Mr. Gataker did in the World, as his Epistle and his Sons show.)
I am sorry that he hath wronged the Memory of such good men as Mr. Fowler, and Mr. Cole, by telling the World how unstudied, and yet how confident they have been in some points. But he did worse in citing Dr Manton, that incurr'd their Censure for defending me in that very Pulpit, where he saith I Preach'd against such accusers as he; and was wholly of my judgment. And reciting ArchBishop Usher, who perused my Confession written against the Antinomians, and altered not a word in it, before I published it; I got him and Mr. Gataker to read it (and it was the last Work that Mr. Gataker did in the World, as his Epistle and his Sons shew.)
Had the Prefacer read but that one Book, my Confession. written in 1655. and there the explications ⟨image 78⟩of the Controversies, and the many score plain Texts and Arguments, and the hundred Testimonies of Synod, and Protestant Divines, for the Doctrine which I defend; and specially if he have read my Explication of all these Controversies, in my Catholic Theology, and Methodus, and Dispute of Justification, and of Justifying Righteousness; and yet h•d called for an answer to Mr. Cole or Mr. Fowler, I should have told him that he, and such as he, are too hard or deaf for me to answer.
Had the Prefacer read but that one Book, my Confession. written in 1655. and there the explications