Letters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombs concerning the disputeLetters that passed between Mr. Baxter and Mr. Tombes concerning the dispute

I Acknowledge it a hard thing to deny self so much as to yield to convincing arguments after so deep engagement for error as yours. And I perceive in public your credit stands in the way. I entreat you therefore to condescend to a secret conference between you and me alone, where we may take freedom of speech. Which motion I therefore make, that if there be any hope, that you may be recovered to that which I am now more confident then ever, is the truth, and to do the Church as much service as you do hurt, that your name may not be found hereafter among the desperate enemies of the truth and peace; how happy were I if I might see you so recovered: Sir I pray deny not this motion (which I thought fit to propound before I reply to your last Letters) and which proceedeth only from a longing desire after your own and the Churches Welfare in

I Acknowledge it a hard thing to deny self so much as to yield to convincing arguments after so deep ingagement for errour as yours. And I perceive in publick your credit stands in the way. I intreat you therefore to condiscend to a secret conference between you and me alone, where we may take freedome of speech. Which motion I therefore make, that if there be any hope, that you may be recovered to that which I am now more confident then ever, is the truth, and to do the Church as much service as you do hurt, that your name may not be found hereafter among the desperate enemies of the truth and peace; how happy were I if I might see you so recovered: Sir I pray deny not this motion (which I thought fit to propound before I reply to your last Letters) and which proceedeth only from a longing desire after your own and the Churches Welfare in