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had been lords of the world . And when Sir Henry Vane was in power , and forming * his draught of a ( not Free but ) tanatic Commonwealth , and Sir George Booth's rising was near ,
and the looked-for opposition , they laid wait upon the road for my letters , and , intercepting one written to Major Beake , of Coventry , they sent it up to Sir Henry Vane to London ; who found it so warily written , though himself was mentioned in it , that he
could have nothing against it ; yet sent he for Major Beake to London , and put him to answer to it at the Committee , where by examination they sought to have made something of it ; but after many threatenings they dismissed him : this was the 5
Anabaptists' fidelity /—Pp . 206 , 207 . Sharp , whom this letter introduces to Baxter , was the agent of the Presbyterians of Scotland in the Court of Cromwell . He obtained and kept this post by professing horror of Episcopacy . He was probably sincere in the beginning ; but he was soon corrupted , and his after story is easily summed
up . For betraying his trust , while appealing solemnly to God to witness his Presbyterian zeal , and helping to bring in Episcopacy , he is made Archbishop of St . Andrew's ; then turns persecutor and is relentless ; and is finally put to death by a band of Covenanters . ( See Burnet's Life and Times , 8 vo . I , 88 , 126 , &c . )]
Rev . Sir , HAVEING had noe convenience of seeing or heareing of you for some tyme , I was the more coveteous to- improove this conveyance y * you might heare from tnee , and to give
you assurance y * you are frequent in my thoughts and hearte as an occasion of rejoicing before the Lord ; especially considering the indefatigablenes of your labours and the greatnes of your travell for the peace & unity of the churches of Christ . As God has
given you the vantage - # rownde of most of your brethren to foresee the woeful effects & sad consequences of divisions & breaches in the church , especially among the ministers &guides
thereof , so has he marvelously inclined the spirits of many ( & I believe through the cogency of your arguments ) to agreement in knowhedutys & common principles in order to union , in somuch
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that from the late combinations & associations in many comities of this nation we may hopefully expect yett a good day , & that these wholsom
passages of God ' s providence are but preparatory to the further growth of the peace & tranquillity of the church . But alas for the day wherein raencion is made of the broken and
devided state of the Church of Scotland , the sunn of its peace is gone many degrees backwards . God has suffered them to be broken in theire civill pollicy , and now some among them would snapp in sunder the bonds of their
ecclesiastical pollicy and with greatest vigor prosecute the overthrow of all that is regular among them , & that which yett is most to be admired att , these kinde of levellers give out they are Presbyterians & have noe thoughts to swerve from Presbyteriall principles . In the nieane tyme , theire
application here is to such & such onely who would never befriend any class or tribe of meu but such as past the bounds of independency , even Anabaptists and 5 th Monarchists , and from these they find such countenance that they cannot but gratifie them with a conversion to theire *
This tyme I forgett to whom I write ; certamely had these things bin transacted in the darke , your sagacity would have found them out , but they have bin published on the house topp , yea Gath and Askelon say , aha ! soe we would have it . The late progress & the present posture of this affaire will
be stated to you by the Reverend Mr . Sharpe , the bearer hereof : he was delegated by the Church of Scotland to manage buisenes heere , where he has continued above a yeare . His charge bespeakes his worth and piety , & his praise is through all the churches , the care whereof he has bore in the tnidst
of great opposition , & God has hitherto given him success & prospered the : worke in his hands . Your name , Sir * has ingaged liim to this journey , & : you will soon be convinced the high esteeme he had of you was the onely *
motive to it . Noe doubt you have hearde of him , if not by this tyme I question not but you'll owne him without credentials , & yet , I believe , you will have a character of hilm from better hands . I cannot so much as * Paper torn .
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ftfiginal Letters from and to RicharHBaxter '„ 143
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/15/
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