A27046:52
A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our…
A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's fanatic Prophecy / by Richard Baxter.A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's phanatic Prophesie / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Jacob Sampson, 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.
For 'tis as good to take a Method from a Book, as from your Mouth:) And We will teach Ours first to understand the Catechism, Ursine, Polanus, Amesius, &c. with the Scriptures, and to read the Fathers in order, when they have judgment to know how to use them, and let the issue show which is the wiser way. But I pray you while you read the Fathers to your Scholars, call them not blew Aprons, nor Tub-Preachers, nor Fanatics, as out as you find them to have wanted the Languages, or Academical Education, lest it hinder your success.
For 'tis as good to take a Method from a Book, as from your Mouth:) And We will teach Ours first to understand the Catechism, Ursine, Polanus, Amesius, &c. with the Scriptures, and to read the Fathers in order, when they have judgment to know how to use them, and let the issue shew which is the wiser way. But I pray you while you read the Fathers to your Scholars, call them not blew Aprons, nor Tub-Preachers, nor Fanaticks, as out as you find them to have wanted the Languages, or Academical Education, lest it hinder your success.
But I think all this quarrel with the Method of our Studies, is for the Interest of Diocesan Prelacy; Therefore to save us any more trouble, we will refer all that Controversy to your own Ignatius alone, (who determineth, That in every Church there is one Altar, and one Bishop, with his Presbyters and Deacons) and with that we are content. In your Page 6, to keep your wont; 1. You feign me to say, that which I tell you is objected to me by others. 2. You falsely feign me to allow the Conformists to have some Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, my very mention of which words you out lay hold on, as an Honour granted to your ••••: But it is all a false supposition, I never approved hofe words to the Conformists: I only told you, that (valuing Matter before Words) I […] the Church had men that speak sound Doctrine ⟨p. 21⟩in an apt and serious manner, for bringing Sinners to repentance in English, than such as can lace an insipid, empty, senseless Discourse, with some shreds of Chaldee, Syriac, or Arabic: and though I could wish that all the Ministers of Christ had all Accomplishments fit even for the adorning of their sacred Work; yet I had rather hear a mere English Divine, than an Hebrew or a Syriac Sot.] You put me to the troublesome repeating of my words, by your falsification. I did not mention Conformists at all, nor had any thought of appropriating these Passages to them any more than others: But only to tell you, that be he Conformist on Non-conformist, if like Augustine, Ambrose, &c. he had sound Divinity without the Languages now mentioned, I could better bear with him, than with one (whoever) that had Words for Ostentation without Sense; and to free you from all suspicion of Injury, I never heard one of the young Conformists which I mention, make any ostentation or credible signification of his skill in any one of those Tongues: Nor do I remember but exceeding few Conformists in England of my acquaintance, that I will accuse or suspect of any such skill: But having a Lad in my house not long ago come from School, who hath some acquaintance in all these Languages, and as many more, who I assure you is too young to be a Conformable Preacher, or Divine, he being next me, suggested the Matter of my Comparison, when you vilified I know not whom (some unnamed) Non-conformists, for knowing little more than English Books can teach them.