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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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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 ⟨p. 28⟩times, and of the Prelates against the Presbyterians when time was. But our names are not in the power of their tongues and pens, they are in the hands of God, who will preserve them so far as he hath use of them, and further we shall have no use of them our selves.
That extreme eagernesse 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 watchfulnesse to walk inoffensively and convincingly before all men. For we see by their anger, even almost to madnesse bent that way, that they had little hope to prevaile with all their arguments against the cause wee professe, till they could get downe our esteeme (such as it was) in the hearts of the people. The old way of the Heathens against the Christians in the Primitive ⟨p. 28⟩times, and of the Prelates against the Presbyterians when time was. But our names are not in the power of their tongues and pens, they are in the hands of God, who will preserve them so farre as he hath use of them, and further we shall have no use of them our selves.
There is also one M. Bellamy, while he would seem to be London's Remonstrating Champion, he has nibbled at me. To whom I say, 1. That I am persuaded I stand clear in his conscience, whatsoever I am in his book. 2. If what he objects against me be an Error, yet surely it hath nothing to do with the point of Independency of Church-Government, there is no connection between the one and the other, yet he brings it in to show the Principles of such Independents. 3. If it were Independency, yet it runs not parallel with those mens opinions he had mentioned before, who (he says) hold, That If the Parliament have been any way unfaithful and unserviceable to the Public, or but groundedly suspected so to be, (which all the world knows, that knows these mens minds, they will quickly be ready to do) if in any thing they please not their Palates, that then those that chose and sent them, may have liberty to choose more faithful, able, and better men in their places. Now (says he) consider these mens Tenets. He charges them to tend to utter confusion of all order, power, Government in Church and Common-wealth, and I will give you an instance (says he) of one, (naming my self, in my Answer to D. Ferne.)