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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: To the Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter Preacher at Kidderminster, these present.
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 writing (which I like best) I desire not to put you to any tedious or voluminous way, but that in the most compendious way of Syllogisms, yea, if it may be in one Medium you put the strength of all that you can say. For short dispatch you may being Disputant or ⟨p. 408⟩Opponent, assure your self my answer will be as short as your argument will permit, and the more you contract keeping to the point, the more satisfactory it will be.
If you conceive this point of less moment, others conceive otherwise: Though Justification, Redemption, &c. be of greater moment, yet not all you discourse about them. If it were, yet this being of frequent practice needs perhaps resolution before other points that come not into so frequent use. You say in your Aphorisms, pag. 149. the neglect of Sacraments is a breach of the second Commandment. If so, how can a godly man safely live in neglect of Baptism? The enquiry after it is ill judged a straining at a Gnat and swallowing a Camel, as our Saviour meant, Mat. 23 24.
If you conceive this point of lesse moment, others conceive otherwise: Though Justification, Redemption, &c. be of greater moment, yet not all you discourse about them. If it were, yet this being of frequent practice needs perhaps resolution before other points that come not into so frequent use. You say in your Aphorisms, pag. 149. the neglect of Sacraments is a breach of the second Commandment. If so, how can a godly man safely live in neglect of Baptism? The enquirie after it is ill judged a straining at a Gnat and swallowing a Camel, as our Saviour meant, Mat. 23 24.