A34675:13
A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self contradiction, charged on…A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on…
A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey written by himself not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cawdrey about the nature of schism, by John Owen ...A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by H. Hall for T. Robinson, 1658
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Should men suffer their Spirits to be heightened by provocations of this nature, unto a recharge from the same offensive dunghill of reports, what monsters should we speedily be transformed unto? but this being far from being the only place wherein appeal ⟨p. 13⟩is made to reports and hearsays by our Author, I shall have occasion in the consideration of the severals of them, to reassume this discourse. For what he adds about the space of time wherein my former reply was drawn up, because I know not whether he had heard any report insinuated to the contrary to what I affirmed, I shall not trouble him with giving evidence thereunto: but only add that here he hath the product of half that time, which I now interpose upon the review of my transcribed papers: Only whereas it is said that Mc Cawdry is an ancient man; I cannot but wonder he should be so easy of belief; Arist. Rhetor. lib. 2. c. 18. tell's us, [Greek or Hebrew], and not apt to believe; whence on all occasions of discourse [Greek or Hebrew]; but he believes all that comes to hand with an easy Faith, which he hath totally in his own power, to dispose of at pleasure. That I was in passion when I wrote my review is his judgment; but this is but man's day; we are in expectation of ⟨p. 14⟩that, wherein the world shall be judged in righteousness; it is to possible that my spirit was not in that frame in all things, wherein it ought to have been; but that the Reverend Author knows not; I have nothing to say to this, but that of the Philosopher— [Greek or Hebrew], Epic. Cap. 48. Much I confess, was not spoken by me (which he afterwards insisteth on) to the Argumentative part of his book, which as in an answer I was not to look for, so to find, had been a difficult task. As he hath nothing to say, unto the differences among themselves both in judgment and practice, soe how little there is, in his recrimination of the differences among us, as that one and the same man differeth from himself, which charge he casts upon Mr Cotton and my self, will speedily be manifested to all impartial men.
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