A Reply to the Catholic Gentlemans Answer, Conclusion
The Concluſion.
Num. 1 I Am now come to the cloſe of this Gentleman's Anſwer in theſe words,
Thus, Sir, you have my ſenſe of Doctor Hammond's Book in all the particulars, which, I think, to the purpoſe; my time, nor the brevity fit for a Letter, not permitting I ſhould be more methodical, and doe reſt
Your friend and humble ſervant, B. P. Bruxels, the 30 March, 1654.
Num. 2 Here he is pleaſed largely enough to aſſume the office of an Ariſtarchus, and to involve under no light cenſure, of impertinency at the leaſt, the farre greateſt part of that Treatiſe of Schiſme, for certainly that which he hath not offered any Anſwer to, is ſuch, and yet he here undertakes to have given his ſenſe in all the particulars, which he thinks to the purpoſe, which muſt conclude it his opinion, that all other particulars are not to the purpoſe. This indeed is a performance ſomewhat above the promiſe of the title page, which obliged him to an Anſwer of the moſt material parts of that Treatiſe; And it were very eaſie to ſhew that there is no degree of truth in either of theſe, that on the contrary, he hath not offered any word of Reply to the moſt material, which I hope are not the leaſt pertinent parts of that Treatiſe. But inſtead of this larger Reflexion it may ſuffice, that whatſoever he hath though fit to take notice of, and thereby hath expreſſed his judgment of it, that it is moſt material in compariſon of the reſt hath here been very particularly conſidered, and his Anſwers manifeſted to have no force in them. And ſo I very friendly take my leave of him.
The God of all grace and peace binde up the wounds of his bleeding Church.