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«< I return yot * my thanks for yours , and am # lad to hear you intend to write our Rev ,, abd beloved JWr . \ Baxter ' s Life . You do it not only or chiefly t $ satisfy some peojttefs xttfio $ ity , nor to honour Jiim who will live in his works ,
but to give glory to God and benefit those that shall read it . And , therer fore * Sir , I wouW not have you make too much haste i « it , ( to which many will be pressing ypu >) but take time enough , to do it yyeVLi and not ( as $ po many others in the like cases have done ) tq > murder him while , you would
make known Jiis Kfe * J need jaot der sire you to set before you tjie lives that have been written of late more accurately , as that of Mr . John firuen , Dr . Hammond , Mr . Elliot , and others amongst us , Scultetus Curriculum Vitse suae , &c . &c abroad , and of Mr
de Renty , and Philip Nerius , &c ,, by the Romanists , which greatly instruct aad move while they are read ; and I doubt not but ^ you will digest things under several heads , as concerning his
piety , temperance , charity , preaching , writings , reproaches , sufferings , ( insisting especially on that before mv Lprd Jeffreys , ) , his patience , &c . > ana of his life iu the several places whejre l ^ e resided ^ Jiis writings , his conversation
with you , and many others , in London , Avill furnish you abundantly ; and I cannot pretend to add any thing material , y #% I will scribble something while I vtake the pleasure tc ; recollect some few things in my acquaintance with him , which bath been near forty
years , ., _ t > ... ; .. ; .. , > ; ; * ' I remember I heard / W . m J ^ % e tha $ when he w ^ is at I ^ udlpw in his y wl ^ ..-h f ^ 4 ' WfM > ^ °£ ^ lo *» g ^^ i ^ ritfe ^ t GmiiiArsi $ ^ &wev * t % Y * o youn ^ j ^ ii im % . ftc ^ iiaipl ^ we that were deeply qojiyiac ^ 0 f £ ^ ^ a ^ n ^ st m BW ^ r , an ^ profession , pf religion , tha ) t jEpll away ^ fter n ^ t ^ o uajy ^ tbe particulars , whicfc ; i * pjfe very ^ firectipg i uit
, Aa ^ tor ^ ot , b ^ t , tl ^ t c wrc ^^ m ^ upli upojn ^ im ^ ;^ a 4 ^ smm ' 9 lflkfflMite jC | « ¦ - . Wp ^| . 5 iB * j ^!! i » ' ¦ fl ^ te * wi'i tl > # * . ' ^ mM ^ ' ^ WM ^ ^
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and ¦ that if het J £ ye 4 k ^ d piaiCe whfire it Waa wholly ailbi ^ iifiei ^^ he ^[ o ^ d worship God sometUxkestviU ^ ithe ^ Episcopal , sometimes with the Congregational , sometimes > vi | h tbe . Anabap
tists , if they wo ^ uld permit him , to shew his union v 0 , h . them , but usually in his own way he thought the best . » 4 Riding > vith him one da ^ y , h ^ told me the fable of an old man and 9 to
young boy ^ jftiat rode tke fliarket on a poar littjte ass . As they went the people cried to tins old man and l > oy , * Are you not ashamed both to ride on the poor ass and kill him ?' Then the boy alighted - The ne ^ t that met them said . ' Thou old fool , art
thou not ashamed to ride and let the little boy go on foot ? ' Then the old man alighted ^ and set the boy on his back . The next that met them said , * You youqg jackanapes , are you not ashamed tp ride and Jet the poor old
man go on foot ? ' Then the boy alighted , and went . on foot with the old man , and led the ass empty . The next that met them said , * Thou old fool , dost thou and the child both go on foot , and have an ass unloaden with
. you ? ' &c . { Saying , he could never 4 o any thing to purpose till he was got above the censures of people , it being impossible to please all . " He told me another time , that one discoursing with ^ im ^ asserted , that besides the Understanding and Will ,, there must be a third Principle
of Action ; because we oft cannot perform many inward acts , though we heartily will to do them ; y ^ hich he sajld he , closed with ^ and was useful to hun in his threefold principle , which from the Trinity he insists upon downward
very much . - ** A ^ Kiddermin ^ t ejr he practised the physician amongst the 0 # jjn $ ry people , and gave them the physic $ ) $ Q freely ; some commending him much for that , some others said , though he will take . i > ff ' - 4 P 9 ^ 7 ^ . ^/ h ^ iM ^ I ^ P ^ r
will , take-as many : pigs anfl he » s , &c . «* yw « iWdM «*! $ mipzpk&Mt rp < yt $ * l * he ffQt ^ r . Eta , Jackson amongst tbeupiiandlletthempay far thek physic and t ^ eir dg ^ r tpQ- , . ¦ .. { : ; ¦ ,- " ¦ , y ff mmy , mms * mnm p 4 ^ rtfWIqp-^ 0 n ||^^? 9 f ffi as fostndtay ^ j -iQl / yw ^ rM # l lWii ^>> 4 l 4 ^ O 4 |)> . ai ^ thea had a Ja ^^ Pj ^^ ti ^^ jily : 4 Mhflnl 4 ) mftBt < that was left at fcupper . One of tt ^ igioodmen ( whow name I re ^ nembec
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/11/
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