The opening of Master Prynnes new book, called A vindication: or, light breaking out from a cloud of differences, or late controversies. Wherein are inferences upon the Vindication, and antiqueres to the queres; and by that, the way a little cleared to a further discovery of truth in a church-order, by a conference or discourse. / By John Saltmarsh, preacher at Brasteed in Kent. Published according to order.

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Title: The opening of Master Prynnes new book, called A vindication: or, light breaking out from a cloud of differences, or late controversies. Wherein are inferences upon the Vindication, and antiqueres to the queres; and by that, the way a little cleared to a further discovery of truth in a church-order, by a conference or discourse. / By John Saltmarsh, preacher at Brasteed in Kent. Published according to order.
Author: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.
Publication: London, :: Printed for G. Calvert, at the signe of the Black Spred-Eagle, at the West-End of S. Pauls.,; 1645.
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Subject terms: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. -- Vindication of foure serious questions of grand importance.; Close and open communion -- Early works to 1800.; Great Britain -- Religion -- 17th century.
Cite this Item: "The opening of Master Prynnes new book, called A vindication: or, light breaking out from a cloud of differences, or late controversies. Wherein are inferences upon the Vindication, and antiqueres to the queres; and by that, the way a little cleared to a further discovery of truth in a church-order, by a conference or discourse. / By John Saltmarsh, preacher at Brasteed in Kent. Published according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93655.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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Vindication, fol. 46.

Is any Master or Parent so unnatural and sottish to deny his children or servant wholesom meat to feed their bodies? And shall any Minister be so irrational or inconsiderate, in denying the spiritual food?

Inference.

Whence we may infer, That the Vindication takes all un∣converted persons, by this comparison, to be alive, and spiritually quickned, or else it were, as he says, unnatural, sottish, irrati∣onal to give them food: And if they be unconverted, as he pleads for, then who is so unnatural, sottish, irrational, or in∣considerate, as to give them any? Men onely hold forth food to the living, and not to the dead.