Baxter - BX1763 B28

(.32) lice fri entred into the Heart of Man : ] Really the per- mittingof the common Rabble of all thedebauched Sin- ners of the Land to make ferious godlinefs a common fcorn under the nameofPuritanifrne, had as great a hand as any thing I know in all our Confufions. Fourthly, and it added Fuel to the Fire when fome - brought up a fourth fence ofthe Word ( force fay, Mar. Ant. de mrn. Spalaten('s was the inventor ofit,) and that was Docirinal Puritanes, by which name they uL.der Rood thofe by force called calvinifls, by others Anti- Arminian!, who held the Doctrineofyour Dominicans, or of theJanfenifts. Nowwho can well tell which of thefe forts of Puri- tanes you were, and talk of, while you Charaa-erize the fecond fort., as well as the frrff, and yet diftinguith them fromPrelatick Proteflants ? 2. But whichever it is, obferve here that you own thePuritanes Religion frill, and fay, [ Ihave not fo much left Puritanifm, in as Pre laticks call it, as added that to it wherein Ifound it come fhort of the holy .Apoftles Do rive and Inftitutions,] p. r. And when you have defcribed the Puritane as one feriouflyconfcionable and regardful of his Salvation, (at large) you add, [ If this be to be a Puritane, would to God all the world were Puritanes 1 Iam fofarfrom being. Converted from thus much of a Pu- ritane, that I moft heartily with I could Convert all the world to it,] 3. But yet your defcription ofhim infovery falfe, that I mayconclude when you turned, as you think, from be- ing a meer Puritane to be a Papiff, you never knew what a Puritane is, nor indeed ever were a Puritan' your felf, unlefs you take the word as fitted to your felf, and filch as you. If

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