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A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease public worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease publick worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1681
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.
CHAP. XV. Some Notes on the Book called the Lively Picture of Dr. Lud. Moulin; and his Repentance subscribed by Dr. Simon Patrick, Dean of Peterborough, and Dr. Gilb. Burnet.
§. 1. I Had taken no notice of this Book, had not the Author by citing my words against Dr. L. Moulin as justifying his Character, made me a party. Therefore I shall impartially speak my judgment of him and the accusation, lest I be thought to own all that the Writer speaketh of him, and so to be as guilty of uncharitableness as he seemeth to me to be. I honour the name for the sake of his famous Father, and his worthy Brother Peter, yet living, who by his Answer to Philanax Anglicus, &c. hath well deserved of all Protestants: And his worthy Brother Cyrus, and his very worthy Son now dead: And I truly believe that Dr. Lewis was a sincere honest-hearted man, though Dr. Stillingfleet seem to dislike my giving him that title. And I will tell you why I think so.
§. 2. I ever observed that his faults lay in his weakness, and not in wickedness: 1. He was not a man of an accurate distinguishing head, and so was apt to take verbal Controversies for real. 2. And it was no singular thing in him, that hereby he was led by the authorities which he most valued, to think that the differences between the Remonstrants and Contra▪remonstrants were much greater than they are, and Arminianism as it was called, to be a more heinous thing than indeed it is. 3. And when he thought that God's Cause (as Bradwardine called it) was so deeply engaged against such Opinions, who can wonder if he was zealous against them? 4. And then he had a hasty rashness in speaking what he thought was true and necessary, when sometimes it was not well tried and sometime it was in an imprudent manner and time: And so in his hast ran into the temerities and mistakes which Mr. Daillé and I did blame him for. But I never perceived that he had more passion (much less fury) than other ordinary disputers, but a more rah and blustering way of uttering his mind, sometimes and in some Cases, where he thought Religion much concerned. He h so fervent love to truth that he sometime rushed upon mistakes