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till you hare what yon desire out of BlondeL Spar ^ ii ^ iiiy pwxtt , acii «» e nothing t& roe like cx * tn | iwfitteH& , 1 jm a plain man , and be assured of this g reat tro * b » tteat I ^ honour ywi so leased to do
really , thfct I am hragely p you serfiee , arid I will vie with aay body in my respects to you . Nay , 1 Intend EfiFdee ; tiiere is a French book , in two volumes , folio , entitled , ' Of the Liberties of theG&Uican Church ;'
tt is above twelve years since I ^ aw it , but I have heard it exceedingly eommended ; and if I be not mistaken , there are many aiftheotic testimonies in it against the Pope ' s usurped power . It was written , as I remember , by a French President , ffftd when I was a dealer ki books , ( for now I am but for
small ware , ) it was very dear , which spoke it much esteemed . I have also sent to London Tor those two volumes , and at idle hours I shall ran over the
contents of them , and acquaint you with them . For I desire * bat you may have all the helps you c&n before your book cotoes out ; you may expect answers , and therefore do not hasten ,
Pardon me if I be not so quick as you expect , and believe it I shall strive to conquer my natural laziness . " I have read your answser to Pierce , wherein you fully satisfy me of Grotius being a Papist . I was at Paris acquainted with Grotius ; he was there
Embassador for Sweden , in the year 1637 , and though I was then very young , yet some visits passed among us . My discourse with him was only in Humanities , but I remember well he was then esteemed such a Papist as you call Cassandrian , and so did Cordesius -esteem him , who was a
priest . The ownar of "that g * eat library , now printed in his name , with him I was also acquainted : he was a great admirer of wotifcs , an eminent
enemy to Jesuits , and a moderate French Papist . This opposition of Mr . Pierce makes me expect you will have rtiore from thdt sort of men ; and therefore to justify what you say of
the new-fashioned bishops of this isle , I shall desire you to send for a book entitled , Considerations Modestse et Pacificas Cfcntroversiarnm , per < Gul . Forbesjumy S . T . D . Spiscopran Edinburgensfem . it is newl y printed at London ^ In it you will see Paptfpy enough , ifthedefendlitg linages , prayer ^ or a « ad ; « new ^ feahlaned purgatory
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^ the mags to be a propitiatory sacrifice for liviag and dead ,, if these be Popery . I have looked but ait bear into it . It is set out by an excommu * » icate Scots Bishop , now living in Edinburgh under the shadow of the English artsy . If you be called on
any more , this book will helip to justify yoitr charge . I intended to have told you how 1 have escaped a very uneasy remove lately , bat this is too long atready . Be pleased to tell me how I shall address your papers to
you ; and direct mine to be left with Peter Cuninghame , at his house in Duke Street , near Lincoln's Inn Fields , London , and they will come safe , I hope , and speedily to , " Sir , < € Your true friend and servant ,
" LAUDERDAILL . € t To the Reverend my muchhonoured Friend , " Mr . Richard Baxter , " Minister of the Gospel ** At Kiderminster . " 4 t ( In Birmingham Post . )"
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Letter III . € K Reverend and much-honoured , " You shall here receive the con * tents of that book . I have been as diligent as I could in hastening it to you , for I shall do no niore until I hear from you . Now you will easily
know what is \ n the book , and yoa can better choose what is fit for you . Be pleased , therefore , to send me word what section you pitch on : do but design the chapter , the section and the heads of it , ( according as it is here , ) and I shall with all the speed
I cali settd it to you . Blondel , in his Prefiace , gives his reasons why in dealing with Card . Perron lie bejjun with the second part of his book . 1 st . Because that was the most elaborate , most cried up and fullest of collections beyond all the rest of the reply . 2 dly . For vindication of the honour of Jesus
Christ , the Head of the Church , whose -office , in the decline of the last ages , hath been so much invaded . 3 rdly . Because most of the Papists , who have dealt in controversies of late , set
themselves chiefly to maintain the interest and . the grandeur of the Pope , -which they set within the body of Religion , as Phidias did his own picture in the centre of that buckler
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Letter *** ttn&from JfytfutrA B&scter . 261
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/5/
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