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tmt ) 'said , ithefr ougfct to htfve good hottfeeni , at supper * s well as at dinnetr ^ oi felbe it was but a fast—and all that he and others could sav , could ''not mote himfrom the conceit .
M heard him say he wotild not be willing to have , an account-to give to God for above a hundred pounds a year for his maintenance in the ministry . i - - ** I have admired hie discourse above
his Waitings ; for putting him ttp ^ n any point that was more difficult and intricate , I have o bserved , he would take hid rise a good way off , and by several steps fairly linked together , with much clearness go on to what he asserted .
You will mention his writings in the order he wrote them , with the occasion and some plain though brief account of them ; and especially I would have you clearly and briefly lay down Ws judgment concerning justification , ( which few do clearly and fully understand , which of late some
in the city have so opposed , ) and shew he really magnifies Christ and faith and graefc , and doth not raally differ from honest , true Protestants ; and that his hypothesis may differ from others , ( as many of the astronomers do , ) but that he asserts the same realities with them .
** I have oft pressed him to tet his books lie by him some time , and to review them again and again , but could never prevail with ? him , who said , they must come forth do or not at all . And , Sir , as God is pleased fc » the Hol y Scriptures to mention the failings of his greatest" saints , so y&fc ^ ill take a fit occasion to do it hand
somelyy and that amongst his great excellencies he Vras hot to be looked on a ? infallible , nor without some failings ; one of the chief Of which was , his high and peremptory tentfuring those he dissented from , -the
fftmouBest writers * synods , &c , with too much tnagisterialnestf , and 'all other Protestaut divines in managing the controversies with the Ffefnkti , espedfdiy concerning the Revelation . It will be to his-honour to have a
handsonte Veil drawn here , and that herein he i » not alone , but in the Bamfe fault with divers 4 f the ancient fathers and modern writers , Hie / om , LiltffeiL e & # . ' ¦¦ ' ' - ' . . - ¦ " >; < ^ H » eh 0 rrirf « es and i ^ prW ^ h € * 8 vcait
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on him , you wltt not fofget . Tis said of Calvin , scarce ever ^ y was more belied * and abused th&n he ; so that , besides many others , M , DreHncourtr , one of the Rrotestant minist ^ s at Paris , anno 1667 , printed a handsome largk book in defence of him , which is worth the reading . 1 "Of his great and m&ny sufferings
from the high episcopal party , though he was so much for peace , { which many others of them much disliked , ) to the everlasting shame of such ; especially that carriage of my I ^ ovd Jeffrws , when before him in his house , ( Mr . Jacomb , as I remember , was by then , ) when his lady ( yet living ^ desired him to be more feir ; and how
used in Westminster Hall ; nothing more honourable than whefci * the Rev . Baxter stood at bay , ber&gued i loused , despised ; never more great than then . Draw thk well . ( You will say , this will ndt be borne : it may , if well
done ; and if it will not be borne now , it will hereafter , and the -time will come when it may and will be known . ) This is the noblest part of his life , and not that he might have been a bishop .
The apostle ( 2 Cor . xi . ) when hfc would gto * -y > mentions his labours and striped and bands and imprisonments ; his troubles , weariness , dangers , reproaicihes ; niot his riches and coaches and'honours and ^ advintages - God lead
Us into this spirit , and free us frofq-the worldly one which we are apt 'fa run Into " . And be . ttfre to give a clear account of the transactions at the Savoy
( 1660 ) , of which he hath told me he had a fuller account amongst his papers than any yet ex * aflt , <* ai * 4 how truly he foresaw and told what would follow , on the course t&ejr took '; tod take notice of the mi&fepfesefltation
of him by Bishop M 0 rl 6 y , arid the rather because wr- Vwtntt ^( tbaee ^ Bishop of Ely ;) in \ m Animttdv ^ tftions on th ^ Naked 1 ¥ iith * ^ 1676 ^) 4 ictti « ed by the Bishop of LotldoW , p . 14 , noentibnd the notable eflfeqtt&fet confer ences > vith the fertd 0 rft Ofthe' Hmcm
ft > rt » i 8 ts might bftV ^ Whitii <{ h&yi he ) appeara m # li ^ th ^ i ^ Bhop m * Win-^ Ws fer ( t hen of W ^ feeflt ^ yprtttfed < rt
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903 Original Letter * t > f Rwh '( t * d Baxter , tViUinm Venn and Dr . Tillotbon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/12/
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