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Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
A BREVIATE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE Ensuing Narrative: Which was writ… › Part 1
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.
PART I.
Written for the most part in 1664.
After a brief Narrative of his Birth and Parentage, and large one of his School-masters, Mr. Baxter proceeds to an Account of the means of his coming to a serious sense of Religion, and of his perplexing Doubts and their Solutions, to page 9. of his bodily weakness and indispositions, to p. 11. of several remarkable Deliverances •e met with: viz. from the Temptations of a Court Life; from being run over by a Waggon; in a fall from a Horse; and from Gaming, p. 11, 12. His applying himself to the Ministry, Ordination by the Bishop of Worcester, and Settlement in Dudley School as Master, p. 12, 13. His studying the Matter of Conformity, and Judgment about it at that time, p. 13, 14. His removal from Dudley to Bridgnorth, and success there, p. 14, 15. of the coming out of the Etcetera Oath, and his further studying the point of Episcopacy upon that occasion, p. 15, 16. Upon occasion of this Etcetera Oath, he passes to the Dissatisfactions in Scotland on the account of the imposition of the English Ceremonies, thence to Ship-money in England, thence to the Scots first coming •ither, and so to the opening of the Long Parliament, p. 16, 17. After an Account of their, Proceedings till such time as a Committee was chosen to hear Petitions against Scandalous Ministers, he shows how by that means he came to be settled in the Town of Kidderminster as Lecturer to a scandalous Incumbent, against whom a Petition had been presented to that Committee, had •e not consented to his Settlement under him, p. 18, &c. a sort of a Prediction of his in a Funeral Sermon preached afterwards at Bridgnorth, p. 20. His Temptations to Infidelity, and to question the Truth of the Scriptures, &c. with the means of his being extricated out of them, p. 21, &c. a remarkable story of a false Accusation of one Mr. Cross a pious Minister in the Neighbourhood of Kidderminster, as if he attempted to ravish a Woman, with its detection, p. 24. A return to the Proceedings of the Parliament; and Account of the springs and rise of the Civil War, to p. 29. The Case of the Country stated about the Civil Differences between King and Parliament, and the Ecclesiastical Differences between the Prelatical, and the Antiprelatical Party, from p. 30. to p. 38. His own sense of, and […] about this matter, p. 39.