Baxter - BT785 B39 1657

To the Poor in Spirit. Woodbridge of Newbury bath written fo ex- cellent !yell againfl this Errour, and in (mall room, being but one Sermon, that Iwould advife all private Chriflians to get one of - them, and perufe it, as one ofthe heft, eafiefl, cheapefl Pre- fervatives a .ainfl the contagion of this part of Antinomianifm. 1 hadnot troubled the Reader with this Apolo- gie, had I thought fo well of this Writing, its to be afuficient Apologie for it fel f : or had 1 not taken it for a hainoau crime to f peak Idly in Print. For the Doctrine here contained, it is of a c/ fiddle /train , between (1 think) the Ex treams offorceothers. 1 have labouredfo tobuild up Peace as not thereby tofortifie Prefumpti- on. Andperhaps in f.ame Pointsyou may fee my meaning more plainly , which through the obfcu- city of former Writings I was mi funderflooí in. Asfor the manner of this Writing, I mull defire them that expect Learning or Exac`i- nefs, to turn away their eyes : and know, that 1 wrote it not for fuch as they. 1 are not tof peat any thing but plain Englifh to that Sex, or to that ufe andEnd for which I wrote thefe Lines. I wrote to the atmofl verge of my Paper , before 1 thought to make it publike , andfo hadno room for Marginal otations, (nor time to tran(cribe that

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