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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
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.
I Am not a little sensible of the great Obligations you laid upon the Reverend Author of this following Narrative, of which neither was his Sense small. 'Tis well known to me and others, how great a Veneration he had for your deceased Father, whom he took to be one of the liveliest Instances and Emblems of Primitive Christianity that ever he was acquainted with. Neither am I ignorant of the very great Respects he deservedly bore to your Self and Family.
The remembrance of your so firm and generous adherence to him, in the Day of his Trial and Distress, seems to me greatly to justify your Title to the Dedication of this Account of the Person and Labours which you so greatly valued, so publicly owned. He took your resolute Appearance for him, as a delightful demonstration of your great Respects to his great Master, and for the same Master's sake unto himself. He ventured his All for God, and you exposed your Self for him, to the severely trying Entertainments which he met with in open Court, from Men of Place and Figure in that Day; wherein their indecent Carriages reflected great Honour both on him and you, tho' not a little Disreputation was thereby contracted to themselves.
The remembrance of your so firm and generous adherence to him, in the Day of his Trial and Distress, seems to me greatly to justifie your Title to the Dedication of this Account of the Person and Labours which you so greatly valued, so publickly own'd. He took your resolute Appearance for him, as a delightful demonstration of your great Respects to his great Master, and for the same Master's sake unto himself. He ventur'd his All for God, and you expos'd your Self for him, to the severely trying Entertainments which he met with in open Court, from Men of Place and Figure in that Day; wherein their indecent Carriages reflected great Honour both on him and you, tho' not a little Disreputation was thereby contracted to themselves.