Mr. Smirke; or, the divine in mode: being certain annotations, upon the Animadversions / [by F. Turner] on The naked truth [by H. Croft]. Together with A short historical essay, concerning general councils, creeds, and impositions, in matters of religion ... By Andreas Rivetus, junior [i.e. A. Marvell]. Anagr. Res nuda veritas.

  • Andrew Marvell
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[1676]
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Credit: Mr. Smirke; or, the divine in mode: being certain annotations, upon the Animadversions / [by F. Turner] on The naked truth [by H. Croft]. Together with A short historical essay, concerning general councils, creeds, and impositions, in matters of religion ... By Andreas Rivetus, junior [i.e. A. Marvell]. Anagr. Res nuda veritas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G zcoh~ fider. But it is fimply,tofay ne worfe, done ofhim,,to call char Forme ofwoidsas i-is ordered -by our: Saviour himfelfy a. Divine Cretrce{me,: a8 1€Chraft had therein: ‘feted rhat Critical glory 5; which he Expofer - will not only havePbiipto. have inttruéted the Treafurer in.this Critzea/me, but to haveread hinvfo long a Lecture; upon Baprifme, as muft forcer- taine have: been outcof the=A flemblies,and tiot Noel’s Catechifme: aco quainting bim and anflrutiing sbim abundantly y in: thofegreat Points of the New Birth unto Righteoufne(t, then the Miftery of the Fir. and -Second givenels , -of fins, Adoption, being made a Child of Grace, Go-Heire with Chrift, to live with bim in the Communion of Saints, after. the Refurrection, in Life Everlafting,: Lam glad to fee that, at leaft'when it ferves to his: purpote , this Expofer will own alliche Dodtrines, which another Expo- fer would have call'd fo many Stages of Regeneration, and have thoughr them too many to have drove over in one dayes journey , but would ra- ther have curti’d out ofthe Road, and lay’d fhort.al] night fomewhere by the way. Here isa whole Calviniftical Syteme of Divinity, that, if the Treafurer had been to be Baptized in the Leke of Geneva, more could not have been expected. And he has in:a trice made him{o perfe& in it; that, asfoon as the ChrifVning was over, he:muft have been fit to be received not only ad Communioniem Laécam, bur the Clericam alfo,. if it were then comeint@@fafhion. Thefe\Expofers are notable men, they are as good as Witches, they know.all things, and'what was done, and what was not done equally. In earneft, he has made us as. formal a ftory. ofall Ppilip aid, and the Treafurer believ’d; as if he had fateall tHe while in the Geeek-boot, and knows how. long the difcourfe lafted, as well, as if he had fet his Watch when they began, and look’d upon it juftas the Spirit caught up Philip to Azotus. But ( fuppofe,for the Ex~- pofers fake, that’ the Treaftirer ) were, in a, Coach, difcourfe, and for all the rumbling, fo diftin@ly and thorowly, in fo fhort atime too , if it had been, whichis the..uttermoft, a dayes paflage Catechu- meniz’ed) it cameto this fhore Print bewween them ;. The Treafuterde- fires to be Baptized, Philip replys 5 If thox believe} with all thine ‘beare thou mayeft, which can never fignifie otherwife then with all the Inten- tion ef our Spirit, as when we are faid to love God with all our Heart : The Treafiirer replyes, and that’s all, [believe that Jefus Chrilk zs the : Sos