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Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, the late universally…
Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matthew Hale, the late universally honoured and loved Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench written by Richard Baxter at the request of Edward Stephens, Esq. ...
London: printed for Richard Janeway, 1682
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One thing I must notify to you, and to those that have his Manuscripts, That when I sent him a Scheme, with some Elucidations, he wrote me on that and my Treatise of the Soul, almost a Quire of Paper of Animadversions; by which you must not conclude at all of his own judgment: For he professed to me, that he wrote them to me, not as his judgment, but (as his way was) as the hardest Objections which he would have satisfaction in. And when I had written him a full Answer to all, and have been oft since with him, he seemed satisfied. You will wrong him therefore, if you should Print that written to me as his judgment.
One thing I must notifie to you, and to those that have his Manuscripts, That when I sent him a Scheme, with some Elucidations, he wrote me on that and my Treatise of the Soul, almost a Quire of Paper of Animadversions; by which you must not conclude at all of his own judgment: For he professed to me, that he wrote them to me, not as his judgment, but (as his way was) as the hardest Objections which he would have satisfaction in. And when I had written him a full Answer to all, and have been oft since with him, he seemed satisfied. You will wrong him therefore, if you should Print that written to me as his judgment.
As to his judgment about Religion; Our discourse was very sparing about Controversies. He thought not fit to begin with me about them, nor I with him: and as it was in me, so it seemed to be in him, from a conceit, that we were not fit to pretend to add much to one another.
About matters of Conformity, I could gladly have known his mind more fully: But I thought it unmeet to put such questions to a Judg, who must not speak against the Laws: and he never offered his judgment to me. And I knew, that as I was to reverence him in his own Profession, so in matters of my profession and concernment, he expected not, that I should think as he, beyond the Reasons which he gave.