A26865:697
An apology for the nonconformists ministry containing I. the reasons of their preaching, II.…
An apology for the nonconformists ministry containing I. the reasons of their preaching, II. an answer to the accusations urged as reasons for the silencing of about 2000 by Bishop Morley ..., III. reasons proving it the duty and interest of the bishops and conformists to endeavour earnestly their restoration : with a postscript upon oral debates with Mr. H. Dodwell, against his reasons for their silence ... : written in 1668 and 1669, for the most of it, and now published as an addition to the defence against Dr. Stillingfleet, and as an account to the silencers of the reasons of our practice / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst and D. Newman, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. And sometimes God stoppeth a Saul in his way with greater mercy. And sometimes crosses make men melancholy, and retire from their cruel course. Can you think of two such instance; as Diocletian and Charles the fifth, without admiration? And oft-times an accusing-conscience beginneth such a hell on earth, as interrupteth the execution of malicious purposes. And sometimes the very odium of the people turneth them off with shame; both which the same Poet intimateth, Sat. 13.⟨p. 200⟩ Exemplo quodcunque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori, Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice, nemo nocens absolvitur, improbae quamvis. Gratia fallacis Praetoris vicerit urnam. Quid sentire putas omnes Calvine, recenti De scelere, & fidei violatae crimine.
6. And sometimes God stoppeth a Saul in his way with greater mercy. And sometimes crosses make men melancholy, and retire from their cruel course. Can you think of two such instance; as Dioclesian and Charles the fifth, without admiration? And oft-times an accusing-conscience beginneth such a hell on earth, as interrupteth the execution of malicious purposes. And sometimes the very odium of the people turneth them off with shame; both which the same Poet intimateth, Sat. 13.⟨p. 200⟩ Exemplo quodcunque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori, Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice, nemo nocens absolvitur, improbae quamvis. Gratia fallacis Praetoris vicerit urnam. Quid sentire putas omnes Calvine, recenti De scelere, & fidei violatae crimine.
And domestical afflictions may cool the fire of your consuming zeal! You must not look to be still imposing crosses, and making crosses for your neighbours, and feel none your selves: It may be your great Patrons may dye, or fall, or forsake you, and then your hearts are broken! It may be death may enter into your own families, and make you think what blood-thirstiness doth tend to. Ut Vigeant sensus animi, ducenda tamen sunt Funera natarum; rogus aspiciendus amatae Conjugis, & fratris, plenaeque sororibus urnae. Haec data poena diu viventibus, ut renovata. Semper clade domus, multis in luctibus, inque Perpetuo maerore, & ingra veste senescant.