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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.
7. […] the seventh they said, That for the supreme legislative Authority to defend […] and the Land, and for the King's Courts of Justice to prosecute Delin•• […] though against the King's Will) is no dishonour to the Protestant Religion, […] any thing like the Papists Doctrine and Practices of Rebellion; nor any Justification of them. If it were, then the very Constitution of our ancient Government or Kingdom, would it self be a dishonour to our Religion.
7. 〈…〉 the seventh they said, That for the supreme legislative Authority to defend 〈…〉 and the Land, and for the King's Courts of Justice to prosecute Delin•• 〈…〉 though against the King's Will) is no dishonour to the Protestant Religion, 〈…〉 any thing like the Papists Doctrine and Practices of Rebellion; nor any Justification of them. If it were, then the very Constitution of our ancient Government or Kingdom, would it self be a dishonour to our Religion.
8. To the last they say, That Patience is our Duty so far as we are called to Sufferings, and God is •o be trusted in the way which he hath appointed us: But if the Irish Rebels had foretold the Parliament and Justices of their Insurrection, and then exhorted them to Patience and Non-resistance and trusting God, or if a Thief that would rob us to exhort us to be patient and not resist, he doth but exhort us to be guilty of his Sin. […] Protestants Patience was that which pleased the Irish; or (if a King must be brought in as a Party) the French Mens Patience in the Parisian Massacre pleased Charles IX. and the Executioners: And if in all Countries the Protestants would let the Papists cut their Throats, and die in the Honour of Patience, it would satisfy those bloody Adversaries, who had rather we died in such Honour, than lived without it: But if such Patience would be a poor Excuse for a Father that sought not to preserve his Children, much less for the Parliament that stand still while Papists and Delinquents subvert both Church and State.