A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books ... : all published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults in Dr. Tullies Justificatio Paulina ... / by Richard Baxter.

§. VI. Pag. 12. You friendly help me to pro∣fit by my self, however you profess that you profit not by me! What I have said to you against [Ha∣sty Judging], I have first said to my self, and the more you warn me of it, the more friendly you are: If it be not against such as you but my self, it is against my self that I have a Treatise on that Subject; but I begin to think my self in this more Seeing than you; for I see it both in my self and you, and you seem to see it in me, and not in

your self. But with all Men, I find, that to see the Spots in our own Face immediately is hard, and to love the Glass which sheweth them, is not easie; especially to some Men that neither are low, nor can endure to be so, till there is no Remedy.

But, Sir, how easie a Way of Disputing have you happily light on, Who instead of Examining the hundred Witnesses which I brought, and my else-where oft proving the Doctrine opposed by me to be Novel, and Singular, do in few words talk of your holding the Doctrine delivered to the Saints, and of the many Worthies that concur with you, and of my pelting at their Heads, and drag∣ing them by the Hoary-heads, as a Spectacle and By∣word to all, (by proving their consent by express Citations) what Armies, and of what Strength appear against me, whose Names I desie and wound, through yours?

Answ. And is not he a weak Man that cannot talk thus upon almost any Subject? But who be these Men, and what be their Names? Or rather, first, rub your Eyes, and tell us what is the Con∣troversie? Tully sometimes talkt at this rate in his Orations, but verily much better in his Philoso∣phy.

And you see no cause to repent, but you bless God that you can again and again call to all Youth, that as they love the Knowledg of Truth, they take me not for an Oracle in my bold dividing Singula∣rities].

Answ. That the Name of Truth is thus abused, is no News; I would the Name of God were not: And I am sorry, that you see no Cause to repent. I am obliged to love you the better, for being

against dividing Singularities in the general No∣tion; I hope if you knew it, you would not be for them, as in singular Existents. But sure, none at Oxford are in danger of taking me for an Oracle? This is another needless Work. So Span∣hemius took that for a Singularity, which Dallaeus in a large Catalogue, hath proved the Common Judgment of the Church, till Contention of late caused some Dissenters.

Will you cease these empty general Ostentations, and choose out any one Point of real Difference between you and me about Justification, and come to a fair Trial, on whose side the Churches of Christ have been for 1500 years after Christ; yea, bring me but any two or one considerable Per∣son, that was for a thousand years for your Cause against mine, and I will say, that you have done more to confute me by far, than yet you have done; and if two only be against me, I will pardon you for calling me Singular.