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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.
§ 203. Also the said Bishop, when I talked of silencing Ministers for things indifferent, told me, That we should remember how we did by them; and that we talked not then as now we do. I answered him, That I was confident there was no Man there present that had ever a hand in silencing any of them: For my own parts, I had been in Judgment for casting out the utterly Insufficient and notoriously Scandalous, indifferently of what Opinion or Side soever; but I had publicly written against the silencing or displacing any worthy Man for being against the Parliament: And if it had been otherwise, he should take warning by others Faults, and not imitate them, and do evil because Cromwell did so.
§ 203. Also the said Bishop, when I talkt of silencing Ministers for things indifferent, told me, That we should remember how we did by them; and that we talkt not then as now we do. I answered him, That I was confident there was no Man there present that had ever a hand in silencing any of them: For my own parts, I had been in Judgment for casting out the utterly Insufficient and notoriously Scandalous, indifferently of what Opinion or Side foever; but I had publickly written against the silencing or displacing any worthy Man for being against the Parliament: And if it had been otherwise, he should take warning by others Faults, and not imitate them, and do evil because Cromwell did so.
§ 204. Upon this, Dr. Walton Bishop of Chester said, Indeed Mr. Baxter did write against the Casting of us out: But, Mr. Baxter, did not you say, That if our Churches had no more than bare Liberty, as others had, without the compulsion of the Sword, that none but Drunkards would join in them. I answered, No, my Lord, I did not: I only said, that (as they had been ordered) if they had but equal liberty for Volunteers, they would be like Ale•houses, where many honest Men may come, but the number of worse Comers is so great, as maketh it dishonourable.] There is no impleading Mens Writings, unless the Book be opened, and the words and context well perused.
§ 204. Upon this, Dr. Walton Bishop of Chester said, Indeed Mr. Baxter did write against the Casting of us out: But, Mr. Baxter, did not you say, That if our Churches had no more than bare Liberty, as others had, without the compulsion of the Sword, that none but Drunkards would joyn in them. I answered, No, my Lord, I did not: I only said, that (as they had been ordered) if they had but equal liberty for Volunteers, they would be like Alehouses, where many honest Men may come, but the number of worse Comers is so great, as maketh it dishonourable.] There is no impleading Mens Writings, unless the Book be opened, and the words and context well perused.