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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- London, :: Printed by R.W. for Nevill Simmons bookseller in Kederminster, and are to be sold by him there, and by Tho. Brewster at the three Bibles, and by John Starkey at the Miter at the west end of Pauls.,
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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 May 2, 2024.
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their Jesuites, and reproaching the very Reformation itself, and the Protestant Churches, and his disowning, if not nullifying them. Read his Discussion throughout and judge. Pag. 10. He tells us that the Greek Church, are easily reconciled to the Roman, as the Council of Florence declareth, yea that they have the same Sacraments and opinions, adding to this falshood a Calumny against their Patriark Cyril (as if his blood did not satisfie the cruel Papists, unless they also destroy his surviving reputation) [Sed sumenda est Ecclesia Graeca, non qualem ex suo capite Cyrillus nuper inductus pretio confinxerat, sed qualis est revera, qualem nobis exhibent scripta Jeremiae.—] Should he not have proved this as well as said it, that he was pretio inductus, if he could? We do not think that all the Greek Church was so much Reformed as Cyril; and we have as little reason to think that that they were all so deformed as Jeremias. Neither of them was the Greek Church, though both were Patriarks: We have fuller helps to know their minds, then by either of them. And I suppose the Papists know by experience, that the Reconcili∣ation is not so easie as Grotius pretends: And whether Protestants and Papists are
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liker to Purchase a Consent from them by money, is an easie matter for any many of common reason that knows them to dis∣cern. Thomas à Jesu, and Possevine, and many more Papists will trulyer tell us of the distances between them, then Grotius hath done. Though for my part, I make no doubt, but among us all, they are pretend∣ed in Doctrinals to be much greater then they are, by men that understand not the state of the Controversies.
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§. 49.