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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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Thus have I wearied my self, and it may be the Reader, in these personal things: of all books, I never cared to read books of this nature. The Lord deliver me from such an implacable, furious spirit as this M. Edwards hath, that I may have no more to do with him. If he pretends at any time to deal in a rational way, he mingles such personal things, as must needs make it tedious for any man of ingenuity, who hath any thing of weight to take up his head or heart, to meddle with him. Let any man write a rational discourse, acknowledged by themselves to have much strength in it, against that way so much opposed, and then let them complain if they have no Answer. Some few things have been published this way, and most of them have had Answers, and when God gives further liberty from other occasions, further Answer shall appear in public. But is it possible for so few of us, having so many things lye upon us, to attend the Answer to every Pamphlet that comes out against us?
Thus have I wearyed my selfe, and it may be the Reader, in these personall things: of all books, I never cared to read books of this nature. The Lord deliver me from such an implacable, furious spirit as this M. Edwards hath, that I may have no more to doe with him. If he pretends at any time to deale in a rationall way, he mingles such personall things, as must needs make it tedious for any man of ingenuity, who hath any thing of weight to take up his head or heart, to meddle with him. Let any man write a rationall discourse, acknowledged by themselves to have much strength in it, against that way so much opposed, and then let them complaine if they have no Answer. Some few things have been published this way, and most of them have had Answers, and when God gives further liberty from other occasions, further Answer shall appeare in publique. But is it possible for so few of us, having so many things lye upon us, to attend the Answer to every Pamphlet that comes out against us?
That extreme eagerness and violence in Master Edwards, M. Vicars, and others, to asperse our names, makes us to think that God hath made more use of our names then we were aware of, and shall be an argument to quicken us to more watchfulness to walk inoffensively and convincingly before all men. For we see by their anger, even almost to madness bent that way, that they had little hope to prevail with all their arguments against the cause we profess, till they could get down our esteem (such as it was) in the hearts of the people. The old way of the Heathens against the Christians in the Primitive