fl 2' P E N D I X. Numb. Il. ' tencSto k ? ManyParties may Plead one Medium, one Scripture, for contrary ' Opinions : Are they, Ergo, alike found and justifiable ? 'Thus the Scepticks an ' Libertines ufe tofay, [You fay, you are in the right, and Papifts and Anabaptifts fay, they are in theright: Ergo, (Whatthen ? Why) they may be in the right,. or at leali, Mould have Liberty as well as you.] But itis not he that faith he is in the right, but he that is fo indeed, that Ihould be countenanced by the Magi- ` ftrate : So it is not he that hath the fame Pretence, but the ¡unifiable Caufe that mull carry it: Elfe what are Judges for, if each Man have right that pretends to ' it ? If our erroneous Conciences make us grope in the Dark, and fùppofe the ' Papilla have nailed up theDoor, when they have not, then the Sin lyeth on us. ' But if indeed the Papifts, do by wicked Oaths, and Engagements to Papal Ty- ' ranny, and to falleDo&rines, fupernumeraryArticles of Faith, and wickedPm- " &ices, flint up the Door of Ordination, that no Man can lawfully enter at ir, ' among them, then is the Sin theirs, and God will judge them for the Divifions, ' Diflra&ions, Confufions, Corruptions, andDefolations, which they have brought ` upon the Churches of Chrift. Ad. 4"., I need fay nothing. Sir, let me conclude as I begun, with a regoeft that you would prove theun interruptedSucceflion, for the Informationof Nov. a8. r6S3. Tour Brother, Rich. Baxter. To my Reverend Brother, Mr. Johnfon, Preacher of the Goßel at Womborne, nil. Mr. Johnfon's Fourth Letter to Mr. Baxter. S I R, A Lthough I had purpofed wholly to have fuperceded from my former Under.. IX takings, as conceiving them afruitlefs Speculation in regard theMinilirymay ' be juflifiedwithout them ; yet, forahnuch as I did defie allMen alive to make full Proofthat the Succeflion ever bath, or ever (hall be interrupted ; and upon ' the Occafionof this Defiance, you do rather invite me, than challenge me to re- ' new my Purpofe : I cannot tell how I can avoid -fomuch as my ownDefiance hath, engaged me to: And therefore, though very unwillingly, I (hall endeavour, ` fo far as my Defiance hath engaged me, to fatisfie your Deliire. And becaufe I ' herein nandupon the Defenfive, and by confequence muff -find fome Man that ' pretends to make full Proof of the Queftion, before I can difcharge that which ` now I undertake ; I cannot tell , where to meet with filch an one, unlefs it 'be your felf in your late Book: And therefore I (hall apply my felf to examine your Argument, wherebyyou endeavour to prove that the Succellion hails been already interrupted : But before I come to that I (hall returnyou fome- ' thing to what you fay in the laft Papers. And Fall, whereas you tell me to my ` Demand, that you have inftanced in many Englith Writers, who do all plead againft the Papifts theNomeceffityof an uninterrupted Succeflion, I anfwer, that ' amongft thole Authors which you quote, I have none by me but Bithop Pavel, ' and fo far as I can difcern from the leers aileggatra aut alibi, he fpeaksnothing at all ` to the Queftion; what the other do, I (hall examine hereafter as I meet with ' them. Ad 2'. Whereas you tell me that my not feeing a formal Anfwer to my Se- e condArgument proceeded from an overfight of the Word [!ball] and a Not-ob- e fervationof the Emphafis in it. To this I anfwer, that it is indeed, true, that I ' did not take heed enough to the Word,, for if I had, I thould not fo indifferently ' have fometimes ufed it, and fometimes put an Other Word in itsroom (whichmay e make it plain that the Word was changed through inanimadvertencey rather than !by defign);But it was not the Not-obfervationofthe Word,butthe Not-underfiand- ?ing
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