Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

• -· [ 92 J ) .\ among them ) from which his Wife delivered him, getting him carried out in a .Trunk, on pretence of · carrying from him his Arrninian Books. ' And being efcaped into France he was intimate with the Learned Jefuits, efpecially Pe– tavim, and made the Qgeen of Sweden's Embaffa· dor, who fhortly after turned Papifi, and is •yet Jiving at Rome: And it is no cenforioufn~fs to · fu(ped: that his great exafperation might have influence on his judgment. · And becaufe he is the Man whom our Englifh Defenders of a foreign Jurifdietion own, I will next tell you what his late judgment was in his " own words. · I confefs' I ha\1--e a far greater honour for thofe Men that were bred in Pope'ry and are Modera– ·tors, than for thofe being bred Protefiams revolt fromReformation to a Coalition. I doubt not but Gerfon, was a very holy Man: Oaj[ander [eem· eth to have been an excellent Pious learned Man : And I doubt whether rnofl: of our nominal Prote– ftants tpat are for a foreign Jurifdiction be near fo rn0derate as he. He oft ( as de Officio Pii Viri, p. 788, 789, &c) rnaketh the Church of Rome to be but apart of the Univerfal Church : Hemain– taineth ("that fome called Schifinaticks, are not ' indeed departed from the Church for departing 'from Rome,aslong as they depart not fromChrilt 'the Head of tQe Church : and that only def.e– ' ction of Love, and not diferGty of Rites and ' Opinions 1 Cuts Men off from Chrifi ! ,And that 'as long as tb~Y. are joyned to Clll'ifl: the Head by ' found belief of him, and by the Bond of Cha– ' rity and Peace , they are joyned to the Church, ' and are not to be; taken for Schifmaticks and · :Aliens

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