SECT. LXIX.
BUT Mr. Pierce thinks [it had been * 1.1 well if I had named those Papists, and then have publikely declared that I meant no more: p. 94.] I am not of that mind.
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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For 1. Some of them have very lovingly sought to proselyte me, as having (by the reproaches of some unadvised Brethren) been brought to have some hopes of me; And truly ingenuity prohibits me to be∣tray them that manifested their love to me, though in a mistaken way: For I am confident, they think they are in the right, and intended my good while they endea∣voured my hurt. 2. What if I had named Bishop Goodman, and all the rabble that your Friend in the Legenda Lignea de∣scribes (which are more then Dr. Vane, and Dr. Goffe and Dr. Baily, and H. P. de Cressy, as you may there see,) had it been reasonable that I should have thought there are no more? 3. Grotius assures me himself (whom I have reason to believe) that not a few such there were among the Prelatical men: And what if I knew not the name of one of them, should I not therefore take any notice that such there are? 4. By this time I suppose both you and all men see that the Papists are crept in among all Sects, especially the Quakers, and Seekers, whom they animate, and al∣so among the Anabaptists, Millenaries, Levellers, yea and the Independents, and if this weeks Diurnal say true, one was
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taken that was a pretended friend to the Presbyterians. Must I needs name all these, or else say nothing of them? Or are you able to name all the Papists, the Fryars and Je∣suites your selves that are now under the Vizor of any of these Sects, playing their parts in England? you would take it to be an unreasonable motion: when yet you know, or have reason to believe that at this day there are hundreds of them here at work.
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§. 69.