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tBotkot a ftbedbw ^ b «§* ths& i $$ contradict an 4 write ons ngwist a ^ T tber ; Cwhich U etUl &ke , ^ never did « o , ) yet jmtifies the ^ piscppaliap Presbyterians , Indepen 4 <* ltfs agd Bag > r tists ^ that bave dpse tfee like , * md continue to do so s to tliat pretends
they are all bis brethren , &ud the Papists too , for he calls them Quistiaii $ » ( which naust be Jby feeing born tff one Stock , ) yet safi that this spirit of schism ,, Jthis rendiag spirit that leads iato these perverse ways , began with those that cried 'Dowa with BaaPs priests / Ac , defended thence into
the . Sectaries , thai : is , Independents , ( for so , the Presbyterians called them , ) from , them to the Anabaptists , so to the Banters , and then to the Quakers : he that can justify a tnai £ in calling the < 2 * aakers' light lyithiij , a sinful , sordid and corrupt thing , a&d yet ap ^ peal to iX in print , and say . its but what we have of him and his brethren ;
he that reproves us for railing , that defend ourselves in Scripture terms , rightly applied , as we offer to prove , to both use it and abet it in others ; he thai ; can call a man brother Qn& hour , and devil the next ; first sxfcoj
and hosanna , then debase and crapify , tad me get me behind him , and * God rehu&e , me / ja « if I were a deril : ^—h& that can do all these things , J hppe I may say , Ls so far neither a good man , a charitable man , nor a fair disputan t * And whether R . Baxter be not this
very man , I leave it with him seriously to consider , m he mil answer the great God at his tribunal . Oh i do not so harshly represent , nor cruelly cUaracr ter a poor people , that are given yp to follow the leadings of that Jos u ^ , abundance of you have long told us . at
has stood ^ ven all night the door of our _ hearts , knocking that be might come in , wboae pure spirit and fear we desire to i > a subject to , and w&& upon God , when together in true ^ Jr lence from aU fibeably tKoughta , tixrt we may fiael our heajrtfl replenished ^ vith his divine love au < l life , in vyhict
to forgive our oppose ra , ij * nd those that spitefully use w - in wMehdejar lore < if God , R . Baxter , 1 do forgive tliee , apd fleeire thy good and felicity ; and when 1 read thy letter , the nwny severities therein c <> nld not divert me from saying , that I could freely give llkee an apartment in jrpy how ^ e , andT thy liberty therein , that I couid vkdt ,
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ajftd yet discoarpe jLtoe in wuc ^ ^ nfiar loy «; notwithstanding ihii hard eat £ * tainm ^ nt froogi thee , I am witho ^ bwcl ^ r wot 4 s , , , " Thy sincere and loving friend . ^ t&wu BBNN .
( Below , the amanuensis writes ^) \ ** My waster went toip ^ don tod left me this to copy ovei > wtiidh I have donfe , I t ^ infe , e ^ ac ^ ly $$ I could . ** •• ¦ ¦
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Tlt ^ o Orig inal JLeUerfi of T % llQt&ori * sf The first of these is without an address . An indorsement on the envelope , in the hand-writing of Or . Calder , formerly librarian at Red-Cross Street , states tU ^ i ; it was M Opposed to have been written to Baxter , but
jmore probably to Mr . Howe , and given to this Library b y Mr . Calamyi Feb . 28 , 1753 , ^ It refers to a memorable incident in Tilloisea ' s life , the narration of which , in CahiBay ' a JUfe erf Ho \ ye , would rather lead to the co » r clusion that it was not addressed X ®
Mr , Howe , The tradition of its havr ing been sent Jto Baxter is probably correct . To r ^ der it perfectly intelligible , . we .. thiftk it fit to extract JOr . Birch's account © f the attiiir to which it relates ^ in his Life of Tiliotson . The extract is long and has b&en partly anticipated in our Jllrd YoL pp * 147 , 148 ; but we bad rather run the risk
of tediousneas err repetition than ontiit any thin # oeaessaxy to the elucidution of this valuable relic of m great and gOiOd a xniin as TilAotsQn , . Having related the publication of Dr . Burners History 0 /! the iiefurtnor tion , as a " moat season ^ We service to the nation auddst th , e aterms of
Popery , " Dr ^ Birch proceed * j ^ Aiwl the same reason inda « ed . thfi I ^ eiiii ( Dr . TiUoteOH , tibe& Dmn < p / vQauter ^ bury ) , to take all opportraUias to oppo » e thq pro ^ xeia of that , T&Vigit ) n
specially at ^ mirt , whejojee the graces * danger o £ it was fien apprehended . Being culled upcm , there&r ^ , unexpectedly to preach , out , Qfc hi * turn l > efora the Kinir ai Whitehall , ool the &d of April , 1 ^ 680 ^ Iw * u ^ ak for Wa t ^ jct Jurii : x ^ i v > 16 . Mid hi © sermon ivas
j * DQ » « fter fiufelirfied by haaMi ^ e 9 ty t 3 upecial com ^ tod * t I ^ ondan ,, m 4 to . uBder Ah ^^ te > # 7 h ^ i ^ rf t ^ twt ¦^ **** " ^^ Bf W ^^ WW'' pfJ ^ Pw ^ vB ^^^^^^^ P ^* " ^^ wP ^ ¦ * ^ 'flflv ^^\^^^!^^^^^* 3 ^ of-s ^ mgiiluaffiyluid Ndveky' , " B « it » Jii »
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196 Original J * eUm * f Jtickur 4 Baxter , fiPifgjm JPenn and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/6/
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