I am a stranger to your person, but not to your Excellent Writings, for which I praise God, and give you my hearty thanks; I have many, I have read many, I have given away, and recommended many to others to read, and I bless God have received much light and warmth from many of them, whereby I am engaged to pray for you, and to take all occasions to speak, write, and act, whatsoever may tend to your good here, and hereafter. And to that end, I cannot be at peace with my self until I have desired you to take into your serious dying thoughts how you have walked towards the Church of England, in your Practice and your Writings, that, before you appear at Gods Tribunal, you may foresee your Sentence what it will be, and whether your Writings, and Practice have done, or are likely after your death, to do more Good, or Evil to the Professors of the Christian Religion; for this is generally said by many of your Friends concerning your Writings, Ubi benè nemo melius; ubi malè nemo pejus. And for your Enemies, they are generally so prejudiced with your Malè, that they are not able to read, or think, or speak well of your Benè, but discourage many good Souls from reading, or minding your most profitable Discourses. Now my humble suit to you is to consider, whether, as St. Augustine that great Light, and voluminous Writer Crowned all his Works with his Retractations of what was amiss, Mr. Baxter might not do the same to Gods Glory, the establishing of good Christians in the Truth, bringing the misled out of their Errors; stopping the Mouths of your Enemies, and causing your Person and good Works to be had in Everlasting Remembrance, and the preventing the ill consequences of what has been acted and writ by you, which may attend the Church of God for many Ages after your death. Sir, I doubt not but you have heard, and read the dreadful things that you are charged withal, I have been amazed at them, and heartily sorry for them. I beseech you consult some Religious, Wise, Faithful Person whom you know to be a true Son of the Church of England, (as no doubt there are some among so many learned Bishops and Pastors) and desire them freely to deal with you in helping you to see the great Errata's of your Sarcastical Writings against the Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England; or ⟨image 4⟩take but that one Book called, The Unreasonableness of Separation, the Second Part, &c.
I am a stranger to your person, but not to your Excellent Writings, for which I praise God, and give you my hearty thanks; I have many, I have read many, I have given away, and recommended many to others to read, and I bless God have received much light and warmth from many of them, whereby I am engaged to pray for you, and to take all occasions to speak, write, and act, whatsoever may tend to your good here, and hereafter. And to that end, I cannot be at peace with my self until I have desir'd you to take into your serious dying thoughts how you have walk'd towards the Church of England, in your Practice and your Writings, that, before you appear at Gods Tribunal, you may foresee your Sentence what it will be, and whether your Writings, and Practice have done, or are likely after your death, to do more Good, or Evil to the Professors of the Christian Religion; for this is generally said by many of your Friends concerning your Writings, Ubi benè nemo melius; ubi malè nemo pejus. And for your Enemies, they are generally so prejudiced with your Malè, that they are not able to read, or think, or speak well of your Benè, but discourage many good Souls from reading, or minding your most profitable Discourses. Now my humble suit to you is to consider, whether, as St. Augustine that great Light, and voluminous Writer Crowned all his Works with his Retractations of what was amiss, Mr. Baxter might not do the same to Gods Glory, the establishing of good Christians in the Truth, bringing the misled out of their Errors; stopping the Mouths of your Enemies, and causing your Person and good Works to be had in Everlasting Remembrance, and the preventing the ill consequences of what has been acted and writ by you, which may attend the Church of God for many Ages after your death. Sir, I doubt not but you have heard, and read the dreadful things that you are charged withal, I have been amazed at them, and heartily sorry for them. I beseech you consult some Religious, Wise, Faithful Person whom you know to be a true Son of the Church of England, (as no doubt there are some among so many learned Bishops and Pastors) and desire them freely to deal with you in helping you to see the great Errata's of your Sarcastical Writings against the Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England; or ⟨image 4⟩take but that one Book call'd, The Unreasonableness of Separation, the Second Part, &c.
