The Grotian religion discovered, at the invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce in his Vindication. With a preface, vindicating the Synod of Dort from the calumnies of the new Tilenus; and David, Peter, &c. And the Puritanes, and sequestrations, &c. from the censures of Mr. Pierce. / By Richard Baxter, Catholick.
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The Grotian religion discovered, at the invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce in his Vindication. With a preface, vindicating the Synod of Dort from the calumnies of the new Tilenus; and David, Peter, &c. And the Puritanes, and sequestrations, &c. from the censures of Mr. Pierce. / By Richard Baxter, Catholick.
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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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1658.
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"The Grotian religion discovered, at the invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce in his Vindication. With a preface, vindicating the Synod of Dort from the calumnies of the new Tilenus; and David, Peter, &c. And the Puritanes, and sequestrations, &c. from the censures of Mr. Pierce. / By Richard Baxter, Catholick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76177.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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SECT. II.
AND for the first, I shall speak of his * 1.1 person and worth in other respects, and then of this design in special. 1. I do indeed take Grotius for so Learned and Ju∣dicious a man, that Mr. Pierce might bold∣ly conjecture as he doth, that I judge not my self worthy in any such respect to be named with him: A small measure of hu∣mility may make meserious in this Profes∣sion. But I cannot be of every mans opinion in all things, that is more Learned then my self, unless I will hold a hundred contradictions. Yea I must in Gratitude Profess, that I have learnt more from Grotius, then from almost any Wri∣ter in those subjects, that ever I read: (I speak not of Practical Divinity, which my soul doth live upon, and is the happiest part of my learning:) Especially his Books de satisfactione Christi, de veri∣tate Religionis Christianae, de Imperio sum∣mar.
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Potestat. circa sacra. de Jure Belli & Pacis, and his Annotations on the four Evan∣gelists. For the blemishes commonly re∣ported of his life, in some points, I ever stopt my ears against the accusation, sus∣spending my censures of him, as being in a matter that less concerned me to take knowledge of, so that if I might be parti∣al for any man, it were very likely to be for Grotius.