Excerpt from The Casuist Uncas'd: In a Dialogue Betwixt Richard and Baxter, With a Moderator Between Them, for Quietnesse Sake

It Would he Tediout, and Superfluotu, to' C rowd all. The. Particu Pamphlet intaa Preface 3 fit that Ifhall rather refer the Reader, to the Book, for'the reft; where he may compare Mr. Ba x ter with himfelf for it in, Efefiually, but an Abllraét out of 'mr. Baxter's Writingt. By the Paradoxes, Difagreements, and C ontradiftions he well he able to fudge of the Authour and by the Authour, in a great Meafure of the Party. He that would/ire then: drawn more to the Life, may repair tothe Original of our Saviours for the Pharifees, in the'gofpell. Examin them Narrowly and you/hall not find fa much an the femhlance of a [olourahle Argument but they are fiill changing their Battery, and Pretenl'e, according to the various Accidents, and difpofitions of State and it it but tracing the Htftory of the Late time: to find every Round of the Lad der, that advanc'd them from Petitioners to Rulers. They Plead the Gaufe ofthoul'ands in the Land, they tell m, and yet there' not a Single man in all Thole Thoufands, that underflandt one hit of the Controverf y. They cry aloud again/l Idolatry, Superltiti on, Abominations, Symbolical Ceremonies, will-worlhip, Humane Invention s, and Order their Difciplesjufl aethey do their Children They drejfe up a Terrible thing of Clouts, and call it a Bull-begger, whtch it no other then a Mormo of their own atin g. They have a certain Routin of Words, and Sayings, that have the tone of Ma gique in the very Sound of them, and ferve only Cwithont any other Meaning) [the the Drum, and the Trumpet, to reufie up the Multitude to Battle. But the Lords Ordinance, and the Primitife Pattern fland them in Mighty fiend. For though they have been Foyld as often at Encountred upon This Qieftion 3 yet the very Terms of the Controverjy being at good at Syriack, to the Common people there it a Milt caji before their Eyes, and they are never tn fo good tune, to fie Vifions at when they are fiarh hhnd.

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