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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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Edwards his witness says he never told him so, and such a thing never was, but M. Edwards now confesses it. Is there then weight enough for such a charge of M. Vicars, not only upon me, but upon M. Greenhil? The Lord, I hope, will cause M. Vicars to see cause to be humbled for this.
Edwards his witnesse sayes he never told him so, and such a thing never was, but M. Edwards now confesses it. Is there then weight enough for such a charge of M. Vicars, not onely upon me, but upon M. Greenhil? The Lord, I hope, will cause M. Vicars to see cause to be humbled for this.
In the close of all me thinks I see M. Edwards in M. Bellamies shop fretting and vapouring, I will answer him, I that I will, I will reply, I that I will: like one Pise, Jerome speaks of, who though he knew not what to say, yet he knew not how to hold his peace. M. Edwards may be bold enough in Answering, for I am persuaded he believes I will hardly ever be brought to trouble my self about him; He is so foul, who can meddle with him without dirtying his fingers? I am resolved rather to lye under many prejudices and censures, and commit my name and cause to God, then to ⟨p. 26⟩trouble my self further with him. Though I will not fully conclude never to do any thing further about him in public, yet this I engage my self unto, that if any thing in what he has said, or shall say, shall stick in the hearts of any conscientious, who desire satisfaction, if they will but make it known to any that have or ever had any acquaintance with me, I will (if it be desired) give them satisfaction in it; but I confess I am loth to promise this to strangers, I have been so traduced by strangers who have come to me for satisfaction in some cases of conscience. For instance, in that about a late Petition of some of the Citizens, which M. Edwards mentions page 110. of the first part of his Gangraena, where he says, some came to me the day after I preached, to be satisfied about it, who (he says) put me hard to it. I confess I spent near four hours with one company who came to me about it; yet Master Edwards says, I said little. It may be some of them reported so. How easy is it for any to come to be resolved in a case of conscience, and when they are gone, to say, He said little? Yet to those four who then came to me, there was so much said, that two of them went away satisfied, and the other two fell off contradicting one another: The one saying, If there were that in the Petition that I objected, he would have no hand in it; the other of them said to his friend, Certainly there is that in it. And after that, only one company more came, that I remember, where one, an eminent Presbyterian, a great friend to M. Edwards, went away so satisfied, as he after professed he never received more satisfaction in any thing he had scrupled, and that with these reasons I gave him he had satisfied two Ministers, who before were of another mind;