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Vindiciæ revindicate being an answer to Mr. Baxters book intituled Catholick communion doubly defended, by Dr. Owen's vindicator and Richard Baxter, and Mr. Baxter's notions of the saints repentance and displeasure in heaven, considered / by a lover of truth and peace in sincerity.
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Lover of truth and peace.
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Wing V543; ESTC R38022
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VINDICIAE REVINDICATAE BEING AN ANSWER TO Mr. Baxters Book INTITULED Catholick Communion doubly Defended by Dr. Owen 's Vindicator and Richard Baxter AND Mr. Baxter's Notions OF THE Saints Repentance AND Displeasure in Heaven Considered By a Lover of Truth and Peace in Sincerity Sicut noxium est si unitas desit bonis ita Perniciosum est si sit in malis Greg. mor. Lib. 33. Non tam Authoritas in Disputando quam rationis momenta querenda sunt Cicero LONDON Printed by George Larkin at the lower End of Broad-street next to London-Wall 1684. AN EPISTLE TO THE READER Reader IT is none of the business of this Epistle to beg thy favourable and indulgent Respects for the Author and his Work which is almost as beggarly as beging the Question But least of all to crave that thou wouldest not be so suspicious and severe as not to take all Citations by which I represent my Author upon my own word without giving thy self the Trouble and me the sad Apprehensions of a diligent Scrutineer that will see with his own Eyes I am not much in love with Apologies in Epistles to the Reader But if I must in civility treat thee a little that way it shall be only to tell thee that if I could have found any particular faults in the following Tract deserving thy Censure before their Printing off thou shouldest not have found them there And that I suppose thou wilt read me as a man liable to Mistakes and Passions of which thy self art not altogether uncapable and yet neither nthee nor me to be justified As to the Reverend and Learned Author with whom I have here to do and for whom I have a Veneration for his real worth and many of his Works sake I doubt not but he knows how to put a difference betwixt the Liberty of the Pulpit and the Press and the Countenance of a Complement and a Controversy If this have somewhat in the manner that is almost necessary to ease my weariness in writing and thine in reading it and I do a little indulgere genio pardon me this wrong I intended to have joyned with this Tract my thoughts of Mr. Baxters Notions of a Parochial Assembly being a particular Church organical of Divine Institution independant on the Diocesan and as such to be Communicated with But this I have reserved for a Tract by it self and ' til I have seen Mr. Baxters Answer which I hear is in the Press to a Book intituled Mr. Baxters Judgment and Reasons c. which hath matter in it worthy perusal relating to the same Argument ERRATA Page 9. l. 25. read in the Pew p. 9. l. 36. read may go to p. 17. l. 8. read may not be said p. 31 32. for 5th dispute read 5 Disputations AN ANSVVER TO Mr. Baxters Book INTITULED Catholick Communion doubly Defended by Dr. Owens Vindicator and Richard Baxter SECT I. No Consent of Dr. Owens Vindicator to the Catholick Communion defended by Mr. Baxter Reverend Sir I Having read your answer to a Book Intituled A VINDICATION of the late Dr. Owen c. though I am not over strongly addicted to the Scribling Humour yet Considering all Circumstances according to my small Prudentials I was determined after some Hesitations to a publick reply And some Passages in your Answer look as if you expected it The Title of your book in the Frontispiece Scil. CATHOLICK COMMVNION DOVBLY DEFENDED BY DR OWENS VINDICATOR AND RICHARD BAXTER has so much of Riddle in it that I confess I am not the Oedipus who can reconcile it Nor did that manner of â—ign at the door direct me to look for an Answer much less a â—ontroversial Answer to my Vindication as the Entertainment â—â—thin But however Singular you have been in mis-matching the â—â—â—le and the Book Mr. Baxter and Dr. Owens Vindicator as â—o-authors I shall digest them as they come to hand as well as I can And in the mean time You might hold me excused if I should in my Title have followed so great an Example only that it be with somewhat more of Congruity But I am not disposed to make my Reader gaze at such an unusual Spectacle I have Sir no light Quibling Design in this Reply nor to put Tricks upon a Person I so much Reverence and in a cause so serious Nor did I expect from the Gravity and Sincerity of Mr. Baxter such a stumble at the Threshold CATHOLICK COMMVNION are two great words and in plâ—in downright Construction are the epitomy of two Articles of our Christian Creed the Holy Catholick Church and the Communion of Saints And were you as plainly to be understood I must acknowledge that in Intituling me to the defence of it you put an honour upon me which I am more ambitious than capable of deserving But 't is a hard Case that while we agree herein and applaud the terms Catholick Communion when you explain your sence I think at least that it goes beyond Catholick Communion tho' that seem a contradiction in adjecto by excess as Roman Catholick by defect For the genuine sence of Communion I leave to you and Dr. Sherlock to beat out after such a dust raised wherein 't is vanished out of sight I wish you had treated him more calmly it would have been never the less Christian or promotive of Catholick Communion But the Catholicism of our Communion you will needs have extending to an actual pressential joyning with the Parochial Assemblies in their Worship by the Lyturgy the Office of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper included yet not according to the National Diocesan Constitution established by Law but as with a particular divnely instituted and compleat Church independant on the Diocesan I am sure Sir that the defence of such a Catholick Communion was none of my intention and I am as sure that you find no such sence in my expressions But if I must be for a while a felâ— de se and represented as one who under the pretence of vindicating Dr. Owen have betrayed the cause I pretended to defend by siding with his opposite in the very Case Controverted a little patience will discover another scene wherein Mr. Baxter and the Vindicator will appear as if Mr. Baxter had forgotten his Title and had a priviledge to dispose of me according to his present fancy Having gotten over your general Title I have the prospect of another which seems to be restrained to your first section And it is The Consent of Dr. Owens Vindicator to the Catholick Communion defended by Richard Baxter Here Sir you make a very hopeful abatement of what you stood upon in your general Title there you will have me defend here you come down to Consent This is at least half a retractation at the next word yet when I have examined what you have to shew for the latter it will appear to be a meer ungrounded Chimaera You are pleased to distribute the matter of my Book under four