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Letters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombs concerning the disputeLetters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombes concerning the dispute
Letters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombs concerning the dispute.Letters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombes concerning the dispute.
London, : s.n., Printed in the year 1652
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LETTERS That passed between Mr. BAXTER AND Mr. TOMBS Concerning the Dispute.
LETTERS That passed between Mr. BAXTER AND Mr. TOMBES Concerning the Dispute.
LONDON, Printed in the Year 1652.
IT goes against my mind to trouble the Reader with these following Letters between Mr. T. and me. But his Relations have made it necessary, that it may appear, Whether all my endeavour was not to keep off, if possibly I could, from appearing against him in this Cause in writing; nor did I ever desire the Dispute but merely to shift off writing, when his followers drove me on to it: and had far rather have been quiet from both: but it was beyond my power to attain it without the betraying the truth. For I discerned a strong probability of his Design was to have got something from me, and then have published his answer to it (which he now denies not,) as superficially as he did by others; or else have forced me to disclaim the contest, that so it might be carried abroad either that I was confuted, or that I durst not dispute it. After his Followers had earnestly pressed me to write my Arguments, and I to put it by, had told them I thought verbal disputing more convenient, if they must needs have one, this following I received from Mr. Tombs.
IT goes against my mind to trouble the Reader with these following Letters between Mr. T. and me. But his Relations have made it necessary, that it may appear, Whether all my endeavour was not to keep off, if possibly I could, from appearing against him in this Cause in writing; nor did I ever desire the Dispute but meerly to shift off writing, when his followers drove me on to it: and had far rather have been quiet from both: but it was beyond my power to attain it without the betraying the truth. For I discerned a strong probability of his Design was to have got something from me, and then have published his answer to it (which he now denyes not,) as superficially as he did by others; or else have forced me to disclaim the contest, that so it might be carryed abroad either that I was confuted, or that I durst not dispute it. After his Followers had earnestly pressed me to write my Arguments, and I to put it by, had told them I thought verbal disputing more convenient, if they must needs have one, this following I received from Mr. Tombes.