Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

No Man has with more Justice Complained of the Iniquity Chargeable upon Historians, especially upon a Black-sold Heylin and his Brethren on both sides the Alps, than our Venerable Baxter; And no Man could more truly say, I Hate and Abhor Lying, than he. But yet even He himself was taxable with some Wrong Representations in his, History of his Life and Times: Among which, what he gives of Dr. Owen, has been Happily Corrected, and should be Forgotten.

No Man has with more Justice Complained of the Iniquity Chargeable upon Historians, especially upon a Black-sould Heylin and his Brethren on both sides the Alps, than our Venerable Baxter; And no Man could more truly say, I Hate and Abhor Lying, than he. But yet even He himself was taxeable with some Wrong Representations in his, History of his Life and Times: Among which, what he gives of Dr. Owen, has been Happily Corrected, and should be Forgotten.

How many Excellent Men, and more Precious than the Golden Wedge of Ophir, have been strangely Sambenito'd by Partial, Prejudiced, Passionate Historians, and handed down unto Posterity in Vile Characters, which will never be wiped off, until the Resurrection of the Just! Such I really take M•ntanus as well as Origen, to have been among the Ancients. But among the Moderns, there has been an exceeding great Multitude, which no Man can Number. Indeed Luther and Calvin, and some other Buffeted Hero's, have had their Vindicators: But who dare appear in the Vindication of—or so much as to say, Tis Pity that they are not Vindicated! Who is there I beseech you, Sirs, Who so Hardy or so Honest, as to take the Athenoe Oxonienses, of a Wood, and so take the Poison out of the Lamprey, that the Books being Freed from the Spiteful Scoffs and Lies which he forever Loads the Best of Men withal, may be Read with Safety and become (as without them they might be) an Useful Performance? This Author I may the more particularly mention, because Dr. Mather was the Person from whose Generous and Communicative ⟨p. iv⟩Goodness, he Obtained very much History of those Brave Men, whom he forever Skorakizes; and therein basely Deceived and Defeated the Expectations of the Gentleman whose Communications he so much Subsisted on. But O great Burnet, Give thou the Character of the Scribbler; tell what a Tool of Rome, he appears to be!