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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.
§ 201. One learned Doctor behind me (that was no Commissioner) desired to be heard, as if he had some unanswerable Argument: And it was a Question, Whether all that scrupled Conformity, whom we pleaded for, were not such as had been against the King? I answered him, 1. That the King himself had given sufficient Testimony of many of them. 2. That there is not one Minister of twenty that we plead for that had ever any thing to do in the Wars, or against the King; most of them being then Boys at School, or in the University. 3. That Men on both sides had been against the King. Hereupon Bishop Morley asked me, whether ever I knew a conformable Man for the Parliament, against the King: Yes, my Lord, quoth I, many a one. Name one, quoth some of them: Yes, a Bishop, yea an Archbishop, quoth I: At which they all hearkened as at a wonder; Do you not know, quoth I, that the Archbishop of York, Dr. Williams, sometime Lord Keeper ⟨p. 340⟩of England, was a Commander of the Forces for the Parliament in Wales? At which they were silent, and that Argument was at an end.
§ 202. When I told them that if they cast out all the Non-conformits, there would not be tolerable Ministers enow to supply the Congregations: Bishop Morley answered that so it was in the late Times, and that some Places had no Ministers at all, through all those Times of Usurpation: and named Aylesbury, 1which he knew to have had none upon his own knowledge. I told him that I never knew any such, and therefore I knew there were not many such in England: And if it were so, I hoped that he would not plead for such a Mischief by the Example of the Usurpers. But since, I have enquired of the Inhabitants about Aylesbury, and they unanimously professed that it was notoriously false, and named me the Ministers that had been there successively, and usually two at once.
§ 202. When I told them that if they cast out all the Non-conformits, there would not be tolerable Ministers enow to supply the Congregations: Bishop Morley answered that so it was in the late Times, and that some Places had no Ministers at all, through all those Times of Usurpation: and named Aylesbury,