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Letter J . " Richard Baxter , " Though thou hast reprobated the Quakers and their religion with what envy and artifice thpu ^ art capable of , accompanied with the indecent
carriage of thy landlord , ( a manifest breach of those laws of conference thou wert so precise in making , } and that this entertainment is doubtless argument enough of an infirm cause , and of as virulent and imperious a b e haviour , yet the spirit of Christianity in us inclines us to offer thee
another meeting , both to shew that we are aot afraid of our cause , or thy abilities , and to prevent those tedious harangues , and almost unpardonable evasions and perversions thou wert guilty of , and which we were obstructed from discovering in any quick returns , least we should be clamoured
against as interrupters and violaters of those rules mutually agreed upon ; we desire , therefore , aqother meeting , and that it may be on-the 7 th instant , about eight in the morning . The matters we offer to debate , are , " 1 . Concerning the true and false ministry .
" 2 . Concerning the true and false church . * ' 3 . Concerning the sufficiency of the light within all men to eternal salvation , and what else it shall please thee to add .
" And to render this desired conference more distinct and inteHigible , with respect to a particular discussion of things , we offer this method , < r 1 . That some one of the
aforementioned particulars be thoroughly debated before any other be insisted on . 4 € 2 . That two or three on each side alia ! 1 have liberty to speak , but so as but one only at a time . ** 3 . That there shall be as-strict and
close keeping to the matter io hand as m « y well be , to prevent impertinent preachment and trifling excur-
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sions to shun the matter and evacfe the dint of argument : and this to be inviolably observed on both hands ,. ' *• 4 . That so doing there shall be no interruption of either side . ** 5 . Name what place tbou pleasest , but that which I am forbidden .
** To all which we desire thy return by this bearer to thy friend , " Wm . PENN . " The 6 th day of 8 th Month . " P . S . I hope at the end of this
conference we may have a little time to debate the merits of John Faldo's cause and thy subscription , at least in a few particulars . * " This " For Richard Baxter /*
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Letter If . " Rtchd . Baxter , * ' I have received a letter from thee of the 10 th inst . just now , being th « 11 th , and about six at night . In the
first place , it looks like a design , I mean not to meet me , ( though it be to offer a meeting , such an one as it is , ) for by the date it was , for ought I know , a night and almost half a clay
a coming less than two miles . A man that haa not read thy Principles of Love , and heard thee dispute , would think that this letter lay at Rickmansworth , by order * till I . should be gone to London , but I am more
charitable . The beginning of this unhappy epistle tells me if I have not yet enough ; of what ? Raillery , slanders , interruptions , dirty reflections ? Yes , too much , had R . B . pleased ; but of reason , good language , order and personal civility , little or none
fell from R . B ., 1 affirm : well , hut my vain ostentation of my forwardness to another meeting , shall be no cover to my sha ^ me . I thought I had been shameless ; there ' s hopes of me , 1 see . But , R . B ., why ashamed ? For thy senseless , headless , taleless talk , I profess 1 was more than ashamed , for
• John Faldp , an Independent minister , published iu 1673 , a work in 8 vo ^ entitled " Quakerism no Christianity /* to tb £ second edition of which was , prefixed a commendatory epistle tyy K . Baxter and twenty other Divines , Ex * . ~
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338 Three Original Letters of Wttliam Tenn ' s to Richard Badle ? .
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~ tage in the dispute . The concluding letter , however , manifests the " spirit of forgiveness , " which the biographer applauds in William Penn : it is provable that the letter which be quotes , as well as this , was written after the second disputation .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/10/
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