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aod charity now ? However , if I were Richard Baxter , no man * s&ould go to ffrisdn for ro « , as one , he says , jbath done for him ; nor should it be a troubled pulpit , but a tVoubled
congclferice that should make me fly . Go to London and go to . gadl , ' - if that must be the consequence , and learn charity by bonds , and thou wilt , jierfoaps , practise it better when at liberty . Well , but thou sayest , I have a designing-, wrathful , persecuting spirit
in me : how am I designing ? ' By coming so near , to dinner-time , as thinking I could not have neld out fasting till night : ' what a prodigious design was this to blow up poor R . Baxter ! But did he really think I
could stand him so long ? Doubtless his disciples ( especially above other gifts in that of patience ) fancied nothing less than that we , like poor selfcondemned mortals , should cry out , ' Men and brethren , what shall we do
to be saved } ' But to help R . Baxter ' s perception , ' that is as dim here as his eyes or his notes were the other night , I will inform him , that I came late from London the night before the ' conference , and knew no more of the hour than the unborn
child ; nay , in the letter sent from London about the meeting , no time was b& much as mentioned . What a designing man was I , R . B ., all this while ? Well , but I am wrathful ; wh y ? Because I take so much pains , ana am so zealous , in discovering and reprehending his and his brethren ' s cruelty to us . And in what
persecuting ? In writing bolder against it ( Without vanity I say it ) than any man in England ; witness my several pieces to the Parliament , and that impartially , while R . Baxter and his brethren are for casting us rand others to the dogs by a comprehension , leaving us under the clutches of merciless men .
Thus much to the first part of the letter " . To the second , which contains two sides and a quarter , and all upon this strain , * what hope can I have of
a man that will say and unsay , that hath a spirit that judgeth the ministry that laboured twenty years ago ? ' &e ., I shall ; by retortion aud inversion , as also by some additional exceptions , give , I hope , a full and convincing ¦ ¦
return ^ _ * * « •> • i ' * What hope can I have of liim that
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subscribes a book of foulest c&arges against a whole people , that . FjHfre cause * to believe he never read , and yet justifies it : he that authorizes quotations he never c 6 \ npare $ y and justpea consequences thafc he liever examined : he that say sf we dfe&y toe Holy Scriptures to be any means of
good , when we ntfaintam the contrary ; that we set them and the Spirit in opposition , who affirm their exact unity in testimony ? What shall we say of him , and what is hp that makes us * to deny Christ , his manhood one while , his godhead another while , and that says we despise , reject and deny his transactions at Jerusalem for man ' s
salvation , when our writing ^ plentifully mention them with horfour : he that says we deny the ministry ( because we deny theirs ) ; yea , thrice over in the debate , ( though I warned
him of it as a gross abuse , ) instead of proving the ministry of his tts and we the true gospel ministry : he that makes us to deny a . gospel church , which we believe : he that renders
us to dfcny heaven and hell , rewards and punishments ; and gives these things under his hand , as the doctrines and principles of the . Quakers , that are not to be found in : any of their
writings , nay , that are confessed-to be but consequences of Kis or his friends drawing , never consented , agreed or acknowledged by us , but detested and abominated : he that will recommend
them after being confuted , at least answered , without reading our justification ; which was either by downright denial , as in some cases , or clear distinctions , as in other places : he that shall maintain another ' s allegations and citations out of men ' s books ,
that are plainly false •¦ and forged : again * he that shall begin a dispute between we and you , and shall require What the you are , and reftifce to tell what the we are ; he that shall charge hi $ opposer with studying beforehand , that never thought what to Say , whilst himself had writ his matter , and therefore contended for his method , because else he had been at a loss :
he that turns disputation into preaching : he that evades answers , and runs all into reflections or perversions : he that counted Us no Christians , ( though h € allowed it to Papist 6 , ) yet neither said in what ^ nor disproved our . Confession : he that made us to deny any
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* 96 Original Letters of Richard B ^ vter , William Venn and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/4/
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