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Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dells sermon first preached before…Short and plaine animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dels sermon first preached before…
Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dells sermon first preached before the Honourable House of Commons on Novemb. 25. 1646. But since printed without their order Setting forth the many dangerous and destructive assertions therein both to church and state, the covenant, and the reformation so much desired. Together, with an answer to an unlicensed pamphlet annexed to the sermon, entitled, A reply to Master Loves contradictions. By Christopher Love minister of Anne Aldersgate, London. The second edition. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1646.Short and plaine animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dels sermon first preached before the Honourable House of Commons on Novemb. 25. 1646. But since printed without their order Setting forth the many dangerous and destructive assertions therein both to church and state, the covenant, and the reformation so much desired. Together, with an answer to an unlicensed pamphlet annext to the sermon, entituled, A reply to Master Loves contradictions. By Christopher Love minister of Anne Aldersgate, London. The second edition. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1646.
London: printed by R. Cotes for John Bellamie, 1647London: printed by R. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie, 1647
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Reply. Good Sir, ascribe not your own work to our hands, the jostling out of the Magistrate, have you not made it a chief part of your business now for a long while together? and are you not still so diligently acting it every day, that now you think your work is in some forwardness, and are pretty well able to deal with him? and now because you would not be mistrusted your selves, you publicly slander us with it; we see clearly through all your sl•nder disguises.
Reply. Good Sir, ascribe not your owne work to our hands, the justling out of the Magistrate, have you not made it a chiefe part of your businesse now for a long while together? and are you not still so diligent•y acting it every day, that now you thinke your worke is in some forwardnesse, and are pretty well able to deale with him? and now because you would not bee mistrusted your selves, you pu•likely slander us with it; wee see clearely through all your sl•nder disguises.
Answ. To return you an answer to this, I have three things to lay down, viz. 1. Here you leave out my words, and vary from the sense that I intended them; indeed I said, that to jostle out the Magistrates power, as if he had nothing to do with matters of Reformation, was to jostle out them from having any thing to do with the first Article of the Covenant, no more then any common man in the Kingdom. 2. You ungroundedly say, as if I had made it, (with others) the chief part of our business for a long while together, to jostle out the Magistrate: the Lord judge between you and us concerning this thing: Magistrates never flourished more, nor were they an• where more secured, then where the Presbyterial government was established; and never was Magistracy more slighted and opposed, then where Anabaptists and Heretics prevailed. 3. You say, that we slander you, that we might not be mistrusted our selves; I could wish it were a slander, not a truth; as for any mistrust that we would avoid, we fear none; the simplicity of our hearts which we have in Christ Jesus, bears us up against all mistrusts, though we be slanderously reported.