Three Letters [By G. Ridley and T. Secker] to the Author of the Confessional [F. Blackburne.]. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1768 Excerpt: ...in them. And the general doctrine of obedience being highly necessary in those and at all times, the compilers of them might think it unnecessary and unsafe to mention the exception cf extreme danger to the constitution, though they might think it a just one., .. ', ', ..;;; If it is not denied, neither is it granted, that the literal fense of those, whom you call, Amiinians, was different from the true fense. Bisliop Burnec would have said it was as true a fense as the other: And please to remember that some of those, whom you call Arminians held the fame doctrines before Arminius, or at least without knowing any thing of him, that they did afterwards.;3?he quibbling and equivocal terms, in which you fay the declaration is drawn, v might be tolled, in general, into the heap of severe censures without proof, with which your performance remarkably abounds: but the sources, from which you would derive these terms, failing, the presumption, till the contrary is proved, will be, that there are no such terms to be found in it. L 2 You - Confess, p, 127. Confess, p. 128, y Confess, p. 123..' "' You say they discover the distress' of a man fh K. James's situation; who, as far as appears, was not the king who published them: and Ka Charles, who certainly did publish them, was not in the situation which you say was necessary toproduce them. - - As to the vow of the hcuse'tif commons if they meant by it to condemn subscribing the articles in the grammatical fense, they have acted very consistently in doing it by a form, which hath no grammatical sense in it. - You seem to object against literal and grammar tical interpretation, as introducing a latitude of fenses Now, sir, I presume you must allow that there may be two senses of a...