Baxter - BX1763 B28

(36.`) wrath and malice doth valiantly militate againff Love.) Therefore Prelatiffs being Judges, I may as credibly as another tell youwhat is the Puritan 7uágment. 2. Your fecond accufationof the Puritan is, that [He begins to quarrel with all external wor,lip and;Ceremonies.] But this is alto fpoken. ignorantly and untruly : You be- fore miffook the Antinomian for the Puritan, and here youTeem to take the separatiít for the Puritan. Read the Reformed Liturgy, and other Papers offered at the savoy to the Biíhops, and you may lee that though theyare not for pacing, excommunicating, and damning men for a Ceremony, nor for making as many Religions, as there aredifferences about Ceremonies, yet they are for doing all things to edification, decently and in order ; and for external as well as internal Worship of God : As know- ing that the Body is his, and made to Worship him as well as the soul, and therefore fhould fall down and kneel before him, and reverently and holily behave it felf in bis Service. You fay, p. 5. "[He is much confirmed in thishis imagi- " nation, by confidering the open profanenefs, and little G4 fenfe of God, he obferveth generally in zealous Confor- cc mills. And on theother fide he takethnotice of his Bre- cc thren the Non-conformifts, that they are generally free c from open andfcandalous fins, and at lead filth and breath "after interior fpirit and devotion, which certainly muff " be that muggiveus a title to Heaven, rather than a few "Cringes, and exterior .Verbal Devotions, which any one " thoughnever foprophane may eafily exercife.] I. But do you not here and in your former defcription quitocontradit your felf, when you charge them as neg- léfting inherent righteoufnefs ?' 2. We are not fo foolith as not to know, that theun- reverent

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