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forjjafet ages ? $ fieee 13 ( K ) yeara , a&d from ; 1 $ ke apostles' day also they took tr- constant maintenance till then , thbttgh not constrained by magistrates ( because ncm& were Christians ) : he
that hath a spirit which would rid C&rist of almost all his church and ministers , and say that they are none of hiss &&d Would hwz all pfcfcple fchifik as odiously of them as ydu by caltwriny described them : he that vrouM haire
all men take all those as so bad , that is as hateful , and , the ** say that he speak 6 th for love , '( wfrett tnere i& no way to preach d ^ wn love afrd pre&eh up hatred * but by persttiufl&gr men of ih& hateful evil of th < e persons ) r he
that wift so fkr Justrfv that spirit , that at the rise of Qttakery so barbarously railed at the best of God ' s servaftfs that ever I knew in the land , yen , that will so far justify James Nayfer , whose tongue was bored fojr blasphemy , yea , that can find in his heart to wish to draw other men to
wish that not only aH the ministers Gf this day that take tithes , but of alt former days and places , had been disowned and deserted , and would have not only the 1800 Nonconformists silenced , but all the settled ministry of the land , that there mi ^ ht be none of theoi to make opposition
to-ignorance , ungodliness or popery , but the few woeful Quakers might be all the teachers that the land should have : he that could so unjustly run over the ? late horrid usurpations , rebellious © verturni&gs and flatteries , ( of which sectaries , who were much of hi * owti
spirit , were %% e great eau ^ e , ) a&cl d&a&rge that cm the clergy as a reason to prove them no ministers of Christ , whfeh not Me oi ten ot twent ^ ef iM How N ^ fieotoforansta , nor one of fbrty of the Conformists ( but such sectaries ) had a hand in , yea , that which multitudes oft the reviled ministers ven *
tared their estates and lives agaftist : he that can persuade the people 0 f the land to so great thievery as not to p&ffi those titbes whiob they nev ^ r . had | r % erty la , nor p * £ 8 JNAit for ^ TOfcfty tfc ^ few are other men ' s , as miieh m
j ^ tstmti&n M Con strain men so to p& £ tk % & ^ p ^^ 3 ^ f ? w ^» y vto #$ tpwtkj j ^^^| h | Iw , rtro ii ^ llwkU ^ vnf ^»^ . ' i ^^ flfa&W ^ Arf ^ f ^ i ^ flBfrtifVrt ^ Wv ^ IWtyilflw dp . C /^\ J ! OllBfp > lllOTt . Wwwl *!^
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"Smo 3 t ^ 11 ^^ ^^ -lu ^ ri ^ tfetf cbardb ^ of the world : he that will say that wickedness is ffi&t $ Where there i # jf cfergry tnan . where there is bone lm&t fe ,
among caimibals and other heathens ) : he ^ at ^ can say tK ^ . ^ e . Qbii&Mtiai ^ religjton is our conformity to the spfrit , kna not to a catalogue of doctrines Q * ii < J ^ o , ^ G& * spin * fite & $ mw&&t sftijBBdfekt Hg ^ iyitldii . ni ^ that all
the heathen and infidels in the world are Gfirfetian ^ knd ihtti there are as many Christian rcKgi <^ as tlkerV ^ re men of different sfees 6 f the spirit or ^ ht ) : he tbaf ean find ta his hear t thus to reproach even a suffering ministry , when \ ye are strict of afl and
Kfltoted about for preachmg , arid to jbin them with them that preach with-6 tit tithes or any hire or jtety , with the ^ est reproaehedt , and wmle he swims himself in wealth , to insult over the poor , and falsely to profess that he will give all that he hath tp the needy ,
if they want it more than he ( which the event , I think , will prove hypoerisy and untrue ) : he that dares join mth thei 3 e that he caJfeth persecutors , yea , with papists , cliMnttariifs aaid un-^ dly ifi en id reviling : and ieeasing this same ministry just 4 s they do , and when God is love , arid Ctiiist and
Ms Spirit Is so niue& for ilnity , U Himself so much fdr munte afyl division , as to separate from almost all the Chris tian WQrM : ~ -Thfe n ^^ n lg not oWe tfedt I caq * hft * & toy gr ^ sit ftdbfes of a fafr or pro 0 tJdWte c * otof »^ e ^ with . 6 ut t wiH met Atforj * itteet Mth ' ( if
a We ) only «*« ^ N > Wt ^\^ pfWettce , tmt canntftcdo it t 6-rnc « # 6 ^' $ t Ms week . VP&W * ^ n < k ^ h iftWfoit * tiixn % bi a betier caxxse , he Will t ? ell % s ppor followers , that thisJs d fflghf , stftihe mig ^ tr to h ^^ chalien ^ ' mfyftf the swei ^ th of <> uj ^ 1 ^ m rfaMing a race with him to know who ia ife the
right , as to do it by tryin ^* the strength of ouir } ungs :. blit after tie next ^ bou ^ supposing him to continue in his pin , I w | l | obey the $ pint ^ wMch sa&h ,
eat ^ h bi ^ e lf fr |^ S cht ^ and
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194 Original Letters of Richard Baxter , fPilli&m Perm and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/2/
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