A34675:65
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
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 intend not now to handle it at large, but only (and that I hope without offence) to give in my thoughts concerning it, as far as it receiveth light from, and relateth unto, what hath been before delivered, concerning the Indwelling of the Spirit, & that without the least contending about other ways of Expression. So far there; with much more to the purpose; & in the very place of my book of Schism, referred to by this Author, I affirm as the head of what I assert, that by the indwelling of the spirit, Christ personal and his Church do become one Christ mystical; 1 Cor. 12. 12. The very expression insisted on by him, in my former Treatise; and so you have an issue of this self-Contradiction, concerning which, though reports be urged for some other things, Mr Cawdry might have said what Lucian doth of his true History; [Greek or Hebrew].
I intend not now to handle it at large, but only (and that I hope without offence) to give in my thoughts concerning it, as farre as it receiveth light from, and relateth unto, what hath been before delivered, concerning the Indwelling of the Spirit, & that without the least contending about other waies of Expression. So far there; with much more to the purpose; & in the very place of my book of Schisme, referred to by this Author, I affirme as the head of what I assert, that by the indwelling of the spirit, Christ personall and his Church do become one Christ mysticall; 1 Cor. 12. 12. The very expression insisted on by him, in my former Treatise; and so you have an issue of this selfe-Contradiction, concerning which, though reports be urged for some other things, Mr Cawdry might have said what Lucian doth of his true History; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
Let us then consider the 4th which is thus Placed.