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Shadows without substance, or, Pretended new lights: together, with the impieties and blasphemies that lurk under them, further discovered and drawn forth into the light: in way of rejoinder unto Mr John Saltmarsh his reply: entitled Shadows flying away. Wherein nothing less is showed to have been performed, then what the title page importeth; or the preface promiseth. As also, divers points of faith and passages of Scripture are vindicated and explained. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Published by authority.Shadowes without substance, or, Pretended new lights: together, with the impieties and blasphemies that lurk under them, further discovered and drawn forth into the light: in way of rejoynder unto Mr Iohn Saltmarsh his reply: entituled Shadowes flying away. Wherein nothing lesse is shewed to have been performed, then what the title page importeth; or the preface promiseth. As also, divers points of faith and passages of Scripture are vindicated and explained. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1646
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Now Sir, let others judge, whither or no, I have justly charged you, with making Gods Prophets deluders of his people; Yea, with casting an impious and blasphemous aspersion upon God himself, in making himi like a Master, that to seem liberal bad his servants fill his wine out freely, but had before ordered them to burn it so; that it should be too hot for them to drink. But your eagerness against the Legalists, makes you, with others of your strain, to oft too forget your selves, and to aspers Prophets, and Apostles, yea and God himself, together with them.
Now Sir, let others judge, whither or no, I have justly charged you, with making Gods Prophets deluders of his people; Yea, with casting an impious and blasphemous aspersion upon God himself, in making himi like a Master, that to seem liberall bad his servants fill his wine out freely, but had before ordered them to burne it so; that it should be too hot for them to drink. But your eagernesse against the Legalists, makes you, with others of your strain, to oft too forget your selves, and to aspers Prophets, and Apostels, yea and God himself, togither with them.
- iOccas. Word, p. 4.
For all that you reply here in defence of your self, is no direct answer unto any part of the Argument: but (as if indeed you had never been acquainted with rules of Logic, or had wholly forgotten them, or were resolved utterly to relinquish them) you address your self to the conclusion, which alone you relate, and tell us with-all, that
For all that you reply here in defence of your selfe, is no direct answer unto any part of the Argument: but (as if indeed you had never been acqainted with rules of Logick, or had wholy forgotten them, or were resolved utterly to relinquish them) you addresse your self to the conclusion, which alone you relate, and tell us with-all, that