A78005:43
A vindication of Mr Burroughs, against Mr Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading…A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading…
A vindication of Mr Burroughs, against Mr Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a brief declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughs.A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a briefe declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughes.
London: printed for H. Overton, 1646
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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.
He falls foully upon me in page 92. of the first part of his Gangraena, as a double minded man; of all the Apologists he says I sometimes seem to come near, and then I fly off again.
He falls foulely upon me in page 92. of the first part of his Gangraena, as a double minded man; of all the Apologists he sayes I sometimes seeme to come neere, and then I fly off againe.
Ans. I do profess my endeavours have been what I could to come near my brethren whom I honour, and I account it an affliction to me that the distance is so great, I have laboured to make it as little as may be, I have shown my self willing to go to the uttermost line, yea punctum I have seen truth in; and this I have observed in some, they have been angry when they have seen their brethren come near them, because then they could not get so full a blow at them as when they were at a farther distance.
Ans. I doe professe my endeavours have been what I could to come neere my brethren whom I honour, and I account it an affliction to me that the distance is so great, I have laboured to make it as little as may be, I have shewne my selfe willing to goe to the uttermost line, yea punctum I have seene truth in; and this I have observed in some, they have been angry when they have seen their brethren come neere them, because then they could not get so full a blow at them as when they were at a farther distance.
No, you will say, we are not angry that you come so near, but that you go back again from what you seemed to come near in.
No, you will say, we are not angry that you come so neere, but that you goe back againe from what you seemed to come neere in.