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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.
And a charitable impartial Heathen may speak Truth in a love to Truth, and hatred of a Lye: But ambitious Malice and false Religion, will not stick to serve themselves on any thing. It's easy to trace the Footsteps of Veracity in the Intelligence, Impartiality, and Ingenuity of a Thua••s, a […], a P••lus V••et. though Papists, and of Socrates and So••••, though accused by the Factious of favouring the Novations; and many Protestants in a M•lanct•••, a […], and many more; and among Physicians in such as Crate, Pla•••us, &c. But it's […] easy to see the Footsteep• of Partiality and Faction and Design, in a Gensb••rd, a […], and a Multitude of their Companions; and to see reason of Suspicion in many more. Therefore I confess I give but halting Credit to most Histories that are written, not only against the Albigouses and […], but against most of the Ancient Heretics, who have left us none of their own Writings, in which they speak for themselves, and I heartily lament that the Historical Writings of the Ancient Schismatics and […] (as they were called) perished, and that partiality suffered them not to sh•vi••, that we might have had more Light in the Church-Affairs of those times, and been better able to judge between the Fathers and them. And as I am pro•e to think that few of them were so •ad as their Adversaries made them; so I am apt to think that such as the Novations, and Luci••rians, and […], &c. whom their Adversaries commend, were very good Men, and […] Godly than most Catholics, however mistaken in some one Point. Sure I am, that as the Lies of the Papists, of […], Zwinglius, Calvin, and […], are visibly malicious and impudent, by the common plenary contradicting Evidence; and yet the Multitude of their Seduced ones believe them all in despite of Truth and Charity; so in this Age there have been such things written against Parties and Persons whom the Writers design to make odious; so notoriously false as you would think that the Sense of their Honour at least, should have made it impossible for such Men to write: My own