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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 shall therefore, that you may see what it was, give it you as first drawn up, and afterwards altered.
I shall therefore, that you may see what it was, give it you as first drawn up, and afterwards alter'd.
Our Petition to the King, upon our Sight of the First Draught of his Declaration. May it please your Majesty, SO great was the Comfort created in our Minds by your Majesty's oft-expressed Resolution to become the effectual Moderator in our Differences, and your self to bring us together by procuring such mutual Condescensions as are necessary thereto, and also by your gracious Acceptance of our Proposals, which your Majesty heard and received not only without blame, but with Acknowledgement of their Moderation, and as such as would infer a Reconciliation between the differing Parties; that we must needs say, the least Abatement of our Hopes, is much the more unwelcome and grievous to us: And it is no small Grief that surpriseth our Hearts, from the Complaints of the Students ejected in the Universities, and of faithful Ministers removed from their beloved Flocks; and denied Institution, ⟨p. 266⟩for want of Subscription, Re-ordination, or an Oath of Obedience to the Bishop; but especially from many Congregations in the Land, that cry out they are undone by the loss of those Means of their Spiritual Welfare, which were dearer to them than all Worldly Riches, and by the grievous Burden of Ignorant, or Scandalous, or dead unprofitable Ministers set over them, to whom they dare not commit the Guidance and care of their Immortal Souls, and whose Ministry they dare not own or countenance, lest they be guilty of their Sin: And it addeth to our Grief and Fear in finding so much of the proposed necessary Means of our Agreement, especially in the point of Government here passed by, in your Majesty's Declaration, as if it were denied us. But yet remembering the gracious and encouraging Promises of your Majesty, and observing your Majesty's Clemency in what is here granted us, and your great Condescension in vouchsafing not only so graciously to •hear us in these our humble Addresses and Requests, but also to grant us the Sight of your Declaration before it is resolved on, with Liberty of returning our Additional Desires, and hope that they shall not be rejected; we re-assume our Confidence, and comfortably expect, that what is not granted in this Declaration that is reasonable and necessary to our Agreement, shall yet be granted upon fuller Consideration of the Equity of our Requests.