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    whe % he was dead his intended speech . wa $ printed , and afterwards liis opinions more plainly expressed by his friend than by himself . ' ? When he was condemned , some of

    his friends desired me to come to him , that I might see how far he was from Popery , and in how excellent a temper ( thinking I would have asked him forgiveness for doing him wrong ) : I told them that if he had desired it I

    would have gone to him ; but seeinghe did not , I supposed he would take it for an injury ; for my conference was not like to be such as would be pleasing to a dying man : for though I hever called him a Papist , yet I still

    supposed he had done the Papists so much service , and this poor nation and religion so much wrong , that we and our posterity are ; ike to have cause and time enougn to lament it / 5 *

    * ' Dear Brother , * ' \ am very sensible of your spiritual love , that have more care of me than I have of myself . Coll . Birch brought me a message from ^ Sir H . V . to the

    same purpose as you speak ; and I told him that I am uncapable of returning him a particular answer , till I Icnow the particular words that I am changed with , and their fauitiness ; which I also must say to you . God forbid that I should be so injurious

    to my own conscience as not most publicly to recant any passage , which I shall be convinced is injurious to another in any of my writings . But for the words you mention , I never did directly or indirectl y affirm , in any book that Sir H . V . had a hand in the

    King ' s death , or that he was in Italy ( though the latter I was told by Mr . Philip Nye ) . That liberty for Popery should be woven into our fundamental constitution , is a thing that I shall oppose to the utmost of my weak -abilities , whoever be for it > and Twill be reconciled to bo man's palpable errors . The Vindication is such a

    bundle of gross untruths , that I look on it as not concerning me . Dear Brother , I am not so destitute of selflove as to refuse any lawful means for my peace , nor I hope so destitute of grace as to deny reparation of any

    * Reliquiae Baxtcritiuw , Lib . i . Pt . 1 , r >{> . 75 , 76 .

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    wrong , thitt " ever 1 "di ^ a ^^^ t ^ o f ^ as I am capable : bftt ^ ir Oc ^ e ^ U ine to a more open testimony against * the contrivances of these times , ( by which I may be disobliged frotn some obligations to silence that are upon me , )

    I rest confident that the benefit of it will be greater to the ^ church than my peace could have produced . Oh ! is there any hope that a life so often rescued from the pit , and trembling now upon the snuff , might be so happily concluded , as to be a sacrifice to for a sinking church and state ,

    and that the death that is even at the doors might be thus improved ? It would be a sufficient recompence for my sufferings , if it were but that Sir H . Ws doctrine of liberty might , at the entrance , be read by the

    commentary of his persecution . I am confident suffering in that cause will prove to me as comfortable as preaching , and I doubt not but it will turn to a public goad , if God so order it . I rest , " Your thankful Brother ,

    " R . BAXTER . €€ Conceal , Mr . Nye ' s name . " Interpret not this as , if I were ambitions of contending or suffering , but as expressing what I think will be the worst if God shall call me to

    suffer in this cause . " To Mr . Ambrose Upton , concerning Sir H . Vane ?

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    258 Letters to and from Richard Baxter .

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    Letters from the Earl ( afterwards Duke ) of Lauderdale to R * Baxter . [ Of Lauderdale , whose initial furnished the final letter of the word Cabal , denoting the detested jjunto who swayed the profligate counsel ' s of Charles II ., Bisnop Buroet gives the following character : " The Earl of

    I ^ aiiderdate , afterwards made Duke , had been for vitixky { years a zealous Covet ^ uter : o \ it n the year fortyseven , be turned to the King ' s interests ; and had continued a prisoner all the while after Worcester fight ,

    where he was taken . He was kept for some years W ^ he Tower of London , in PortiancJ t ^ tle , and In other prisons , till ) x § Wais set at liberty by thoae whro called * home- the King . So he went dver to Holland . And

    since he cbntmti £ il so loii gv and > C ? " trary to attifaffift Opinions , in so high a degree of ^ Hvour * and coiifidtencc , it

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/2/