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From Baxter to Mr . JVm . Thomas 9 Minister of Uhley , Somersetshire , on the Case of his Son , who had been under Baxter ' s care for the cure of an Heretical Disposition .
" Reverend Sir , " I forbore long to write to you , because I had nothing of moment to acquaint you with . At last I wrote by London way , engaging Mr . Underbill to send it to you ; but by your son I understand you received it not .
Having found that your son did differ from me in some points , ( most philosophical ! about the very being or nature of all habits and inclinations ; and the possibility of God ' s effectually causing a free act , &c ., ) I was forcea to dispute these . with him first ; because they being supposed in the dispute of original ! sin and special grace ,
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450 Original Letters from the Baxter Manuscripts in Dr . Williams s Library .
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truth of a this Mary ^ Hknow ^ $ pl re . ceived it from one of y ministers who tHen lived in Canterbury , who was with her , and put his hand into her side where her ribbs were broken . It is most worthy to be communicated to y tyOfld in this unbelieving age * 4
< I h&ve lately Tookt upon your booke in answer to Mr . Pierce : it very much pleases me to read your vindication of the Synod of Dort , and of the Puritans , who are certainly the
best men in y world , although by Mr . Pierce and others of his faction they are blasted as not worthy to live . But of Pierce and Grotius more hereafter . r
* ' The good Lord direct and prosper you in that work w he gives you to doe , and to express myself in the verse of an excellent man , " * Goe you to heav ' n , but yet do make no liast , Goe slowlv , slowly , but yet goe at last / '*¦
I ata , 4 € Yours , in the truest bond ,
" WM . BATES . , * ' London , 5 th August . 44 Direct your letters for mee to bee left at Mr . Titon ' s , y I may not misse them .
" For the Reverend and his most worthily respected friend Mr . Richard Baxter , minister of the Gospel at Kidderminster , theise . ^
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after several eBpeavours 4 ; o ^ recover heir affections ; ^ i ^ i ^^ t 0 | h ^ i | it Ifoe last , and tells her ke was goiu | from her , so as she sh ^|^ him wore ; to w sHe loiwared she was glad of it . He tfc ^ took JUer by the apron-strings , and shaking them said ,
'Bess 1 God will shake thee / He , upon this , went from Canterbury to Dover , and \\ ras seen once to go towards y sea , but never : returned . This maid , living in a little roome by herself , had spun some Mx , \ y * she carried to a neighbour ' s , intending to go sell it tia the > i $ iiafket . While she
^ y ^ in 3 ^ ^ tio » is [ ef ^ li « re being a very small fire , suddenly there was a noisome smell of brirtistoue which they marvelled at , but found not apparent cause * The maid takes her basket \ ylber , ein her flax was , and , opening it , found the flax burned to a coal ! This
gave so strong a smell that for the space : af 4 hours the whole street was oppressed with it . The next night as this maid lay alone in her bed appears to her the man whom she had pro * inisedj with something about his head as if he were , going to drown himself , and asked her whether she would have
him . She shrinking into % ]\ e bed , he takes hold of her fingers 3 . pt * l disjoints all the parts of her fingers , wrist and arme to y shoulder , aud takes hold of her toe and plucks all out of joint from thence to her hip . The maid
discovers nothing as yeU Another pight there appears to her the forine of a bul , and with one ^ 1 q , w breakes her ribbs to pieces . Another time , the forme of a dogg and tore her throat . Another time , a ball was
forct downe into her stpmack , w" soe inflamed her that she could no more be toucht than burning coales . Soe that with anguish ojie ot lijer eyes dropt out . The Divei told her tlj ^ t her case was desperate , saad bid h < er seeke for no helpe by ministers . Bat theX * ord in his rich mercy prevailed upon her
to open her condition to them , who by fasting and prayer obtained niercy for her . She was eminently broken in heart , fr ^ qd fro m those dreadful ( effects of God ' s anger , and became an humble holy , Christian . She is still
alive , for tthese 8 years wot able to move put of her bed , only as lifted ! in a sheets , !*; That you may be aseiured of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/2/
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