Independencie no schisme. Or, An answer to a scandalous book, entituled, The schismatick sifted: written by Mr. John Vicars.: Which may serve also for a reply to Master Edwards his Gangræna. Wherein is discovered the vanity of those unjust slanders cast upon the dissenting brethren, whom they call Independents. With some hints added about gospel-government. / By M.N. med. pr.
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- Independencie no schisme. Or, An answer to a scandalous book, entituled, The schismatick sifted: written by Mr. John Vicars.: Which may serve also for a reply to Master Edwards his Gangræna. Wherein is discovered the vanity of those unjust slanders cast upon the dissenting brethren, whom they call Independents. With some hints added about gospel-government. / By M.N. med. pr.
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- Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.
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- London :: Printed for Rob. White,
- 1646.
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- Subject terms
- Christian sects -- England
- Dissenters, Religious -- England
- Congregationalism
- Church polity
- Vicars, John, -- 1579 or 80-1652. -- Schismatick sifted
- Edwards, Thomas, -- 1599-1647. -- Gangræna
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"Independencie no schisme. Or, An answer to a scandalous book, entituled, The schismatick sifted: written by Mr. John Vicars.: Which may serve also for a reply to Master Edwards his Gangræna. Wherein is discovered the vanity of those unjust slanders cast upon the dissenting brethren, whom they call Independents. With some hints added about gospel-government. / By M.N. med. pr." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89880.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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To Master VICARS.
Mr. Vicars,
YOu may mean well, but you write ill, and (as pious acute Mr. Saltmarsh * 1.1 sayes of Mr. Gataker) me thinks your Expressions have too much of that which Sole∣mon cals frow ardnesse in old men. Alas, Sir, I cannot imagine you are yet out of your Horn-book in Divinity, that expresse so little Logick in your writings; and therefore you may do well to be silent, and let the Anakims of the Presbyterie, the tall S••pbisters, take the task upon them, and not let your Cause suffer by railing inconclusive Notions, which have no more to underprop them, but your own Ipse dixi.
But I observe you write much, which is the reason I thought fit to waste a few houres, that men of understand∣ing may not gaze any mor•• after Paper-kites of your make∣ing: And so resolved to fall to sifting that Book which you call, the Schismatick sifted, &c. that in a little, may be discovered the vanity of all the rest of your Pamphlets. And verily, if there had been as little malice as wisedome, and no more falshood than reason in it, it had been passed with as much neglect as is due to folly: But when you, one of the simplicity of your heart, begin to cast dirt in the faces of the most illuminated and eminent Saints and servants of Christ, and like a giddy Animal paddle and rake in the ken∣nel of Slander, to asperse or quench the most excellent Lights; 'Tis time to bray you, for your foolishnesse, in a Mortar, hoping you are not past Cure of the Pestle.
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* 1.1
Sha∣dowes flying away.