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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.
§ 37. About this time, Mr. Vines extolling the Judgment and Learning of Dr. Ralph Brownrigg, Bishop of Exeter, and advising me to choose him as the fittest Man to treat with for Concord with the Diocesan Party, I wrote to him to that End, and sent with all some Terms of Concord. He returned me a very kind Letter, professing his Willingness to prosecute that Work, and withal an answer to my Proposals; which granted the main Matters which I desired, and would have united us all, if such terms had been granted when the King came in, and settled the Church Government; for he granted with Bishop Usher, that every Presbyter is, and must be a Governor as well as a Teacher of his own Flock; and that subordinate Assemblies like Rural Deaneries might be set up in every Market Town, or in certain Divisions for the Performance hereof. But because I found him too tenacious of the titular Honours of the Bishops (which though I could have consented to my self, yet those times would not permit) I wrote to him no more, and seeing we were not like that way to attain our Ends, which was a present Union with that Party: But had I foreseen what since is come to pass, I would have prosecuted it farther, that I might have had more of his Confessions to testify against unpeaceable Men.
§ 37. About this time, Mr. Vines extolling the Judgment and Learning of Dr. Ralph Brownrigg, Bishop of Exeter, and advising me to chuse him as the fittest Man to treat with for Concord with the Diocesane Party, I wrote to him to that End, and sent with all some Terms of Concord. He returned me a very kind Letter, professing his Willingness to prosecute that Work, and withal an answer to my Proposals; which granted the main Matters which I desired, and would have united us all, if such terms had been granted when the King came in, and setled the Church Government; for he granted with Bishop Usher, that every Presbyter is, and must be a Governor as well as a Teacher of his own Flock; and that subordinate Assemblies like Rural Denaries might be set up in every Market Town, or in certain Divisions for the Performance hereof. But because I found him too tenacious of the titular Honours of the Bishops (which though I could have consented to my self, yet those times would not permit) I wrote to him no more, and seeing we were not like that way to attain our Ends, which was a present Union with that Party: But had I foreseen what since is come to pass, I would have prosecuted it farther, that I might have had more of his Confessions to testify against unpeaceable Men.