Baxter - BX1763 B28

(29) becaufe there the ignorant know nothing themfelves; but may as well believe the Affirmer as the Denyer ; and at leafI the diverfon to voluminous Controverfies about particular mens words may hide your Errours. Do not reColve all the Controverfie, yea the Faith of your Followers, into a multitude of Books of councils and Fathers which they never taw. And do not take fo much care to corrupt and alter Books, for your in- tereff, as inf}ances and your Indices Expurg. tell us you have done. Refòlve without Book the Controver- fie about your great Laterane Council, whether Dr. Taylor, Dr. Pierfon, Dr. Gunning, ( and Bithop Gowns lately) that fay Innocent. 3. made and publilhed the Ca- nons, and the Council did not content to them, be in the right, or rather they that anfwered Dr. Pierfòrt and Dr. Gunning, and indeed your Church, which holds the contrary (which Mr. Dodrrell feemeth to me lately to have fully proved, in his Book about tolerating Pa- puffs.) Nay why may we not expea that you lay by your Book-Catechifms, your Office Books, your Controverfie Books, and teach your People all without Book ? But by this Counfel to your Relations, you fully fhew that you would have them to have no certainty at all, either what Chrit}ianity is, or what Popery, is For they fhall never fpeak with the Vniverfal church, or with a General Council, :while they live : And all their Neigh- bours, to =p horn you fend them, are fallible Perlons. I' fuppo`e you one ç£ thy r refof them, andalas, how fal- lible you are you have in x v,:uWirings grofly (hewed. HayiN I: , id th :s much more, to thew that your Foun- dation is Sand who'fencl us from Books to our Grandfa- thers, as infallible end that thisis4 lo.better a ground than

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