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 15, 2024.

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SECT. VII.

THE third cause of my dislike of Gro∣tius's * 1.1 way, (or design in respect to the terms of Concord) is, because it is Ʋn∣charitable and Censorious, cutting off from the Catholick Ʋnited Society, the Reformed Churches that yield not to his terms, and will not be Reconciled to the Pope of Rome. And thus under pretence of Healing he wound∣eth; and in the name of a Peace-maker, he Divideth, and cuts off (if I may speak my own judgement of men) the Holyest parts

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of the Church on earth, and those that are so dear to Christ, that he will never give thanks to them that thus reproach them or seek to cast them out. As you reproach those throughout your Book by the name of Puritans that differ from you (a people much dearer to God then to Mr. Pierce) so doth Grotius make the name of the Re∣formed or Protestants a note of reproach to those that will not be reconciled to the Pope.

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