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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26860	An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal soveraignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1184; ESTC R16768	131,071	189

Catholick Church as described by Arch-Bishop Bramhall Bishop Gunning Dr. Saywell Mr. Thorndike Mr. Dodwell Mr. Sherlocke and the French Papists p. 193. Some notes on Dr. Saywell's Communion p. 198. More on Dr. Sherlocke's p. 203 Chap. 6. What is the Vnion and necessary Communion of the Catholick Church according to this accusing Defender p. 207. His unsatisfactory solutions manifested and Dr. Isaac Barrow's excellent Treatise of Church-Vnity published by Dr. Tillotson defended against his vain exceptions Chap. 7. Of the rest of his book p. 228. A late Letter from Mr. Dodwell calling for more Answer with the Answer to it written since the rest was Printed though it be here placed Reverend Sir I Am now in the Country and as yet in so unsetled a condition as obliges me to be a Stranger to new Works However by the short view I have when I come into Shops I find you put me off for a Reply to Mr. Clarksons little Pamphlet concerning Diocesan Jurisdiction I have got it and perused it and the design of my writing at present is to acquaint you with the reason why I think my self unconcerned in it if that be all I must expect from you in Answer to my yet unanswered Letters You must excuse me if I cannot think that Book an Answer which as it was written before them by your own confession so neither doth it foresee the accounts given in those Letters nor provide against them Whether it do so let the Reader judge But to return to the account intended why I cannot think my self concerned in this new Pamphlet of Mr. Clarkson's be pleased to understand that the excellent Dean of St. Pauls being engaged against you on the same Argument of my Letters was pleased to put himself to the trouble of perusing my Papers as they came from the Press purposely that he might avoid repeating what had been said by me This being so you may easily understand how far I am concerned in what is said to him when it was indeed wholly distinct from mine Not that I should have been unwilling to serve that great Person but that I know he is in much better hands already Mr. Clarkson in this Pamphlet as he has only mentioned Dr. Stillingfleets name so he hath confined himself to his Arguments and hath taken notice of nothing in my Letters not considered by the Doctor If he will be pleased to engage further I confess I like his temper better than any I have seen of your late Brethren except Dr. Owen Such an Adversary I should desire as would confine himself to the Cause without digressing to personal Slanders There is one mistake in him which you may be pleased to acquaint him with and that is his translating 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thousands more than once and sometimes where his Argument is grounded on it that it may appear to be his mistake rather than the Printers The mistake is small and separable from the main Cause but withal is very evident But according to his candour in acknowledging it so I shall see what candour I may expect from him in the main Cause if he think fit to engage with me in it As to your Answers to my Objections against your Ministry in our Oral Debates had they been unproved Assertions I should then have thought them sufficiently answered with Denials But you know the Assertions are proved in the body of my Book and till I see my Principles unravelled and Answers more distinctly applied to the junctures where the proof may seem to fail I am not likely to see any reason to change my minde Till you attempt this I am content the Reader judg whether what you have done or shall hereafter do in the like way deserve the name of a Confutation If I must never expect any further satisfaction from you for the Slanders you have raised against me all the return I intend is my hearty Prayer to God to qualifie you for your forgiveness not only of that sin but of the many others of your late writings by your re-union to the Church from which you are fallen on which account alone I have proved that you can expect forgiveness I am obliged not only on my own account but to the Publick to which you have shewn your self an Enemy on this occasion to reflect on you but I desire to leave no monuments against you to Posterity God may yet have mercy on you and let you see the mischief you are doing before it be too late That he will do so is the most unfeigned request of him who notwithstanding your many and great provocations will still endeavour to approve himself Shrewsbury Sept. 19 1681. Yours as far as is consistent with his Duty to the Publick Henry Dodwell When you have occasion to write to me send your Lettrs to be left with Mr. Took Sir I Received not yours of Septemb. 19 1681. till Octob. 21. through the miscarriage of one that should have delivered it What you have to say to Mr. Clarkson write to himself and not to me As to your call for more Answer to your Books you shall have more I had wrote one long ago and cast it by Men are weary of our Controversies and had rather all of us gave over But if I should shew the errour and impertinency of every such word in your great Book it might be a years work when I look not to live so long and it might make so great a Volume in Folio that few I think would buy or read And what great good will it do the world to tell them how grossly you abuse the Chuch and how confidently and voluminously you err As to your charge of Slandering you and wronging the Church and being unqualified for forgiveness I have the same Accusations from Quakers Anabaptists Antinomians and Papists almost in the same words Within these two hours an ancient Doctor sent me as hard words As being a self condemned person to be forsaken as opposing the Commands of God and the Faith of Iesus for not yielding to his asserting of the Seventh-day-Sabbath and condemning the Lords-days observation I have these thirty six years lived under such Accusations It is no new thing for Seducers to use affrighting words instead of proof and to say Except ye be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses you cannot be saved It 's the cry of most Sects You cannot be saved but in our way Sir No man living hath more cause to be loath to err and to be willing to know the Truth I am as sure as I can be if I know any thing of my own minde that I am not only willing to know the Truth but to know it at a far dearer rate than it was ever like to cost me in this world I am sure that I have not been slothful in seeking it I am sure that I would joyfully recant any Errour that you or any man can convince me of with hearty thanks for so great a