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A94087	A vindication of that prudent and honourable knight, Sir Henry Vane, from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Richard Baxter, minister of Kidderminster. In a monitory letter to the said Mr. Baxter. By a true friend and servant of the Commonwealth of England, &c.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing S6068; Thomason E985_21; ESTC R203679	15,324	23

44. Luke 6. 27. 45. And so according to your opinion we must first love God before he communicate his love to us That finall impenitency and unbelief is properly the sin against the holy Ghost That no man is perfectly justified nor hath perfect remission of sins till the day of judgement If this Doctrine be true we must all go to Purgatory That though a Christian may be assured of his election and justification yet not of his perseverance of which he hath only strong probability and yet in another place you say if a man be sure that he truely believes he may be sure of his salvation and thus you contradict your self and say and unsay That generall Grace affords true consolation and that speciall Grace is built upon it and that we may gather a world of comfort from generall grace That believing is easie the conditions of the new Covenant being more facile then those of the old That God is the father of the graceless though not in so strict a sense as of the gracious That doubts and fears must be removed by considering the universality of Christs ransome for the whole world and that this is the foundation of all solid peace and comfort That unbelievers may have some good desires which God will accept and though they be not yet come to saving faith yet they may have many good prayers which God will hear That none ever missed of grace and eternall life that improved their naturalls to the utmost as a naturall man may do What is this but down-right Pelagianisme That seeing our acts are cur Evangelicall righteousnesse without which we ●●ve no part in Christs righteousness we may safely build our peace and comfort u●on them That Salvation is promised as the crown and reward to our duties That Grace in the spirituall man f differs not specifically but onely gradually from that which is in the natu●all man and that a Christian must gather his assurance from the degree and not from the kind of grace This is but cold comfort for a weak Believer I know none of them that you call Vanists so vain corrupt and rotten in their principles as you are in these or some of these positions besides others that might be mentioned wherewith under pretence of Piety and Practicall Divinity you have infected and poisoned many young Scholars in the Universities and Ministers in the Land who wanting experience and being not able spir●tually to judge of things that differ have your person and gifts in admiration So that truely Mr. Baxter all things considered you have already done more mischief by your writings then you will be able to do good if you should repent and live an hundred years for since your books were published many Ministers Professors have sadly departed from the simplicity and plainnesse of the Scriptures and Truths of Christ giving ear to your vain Philosophicall Distinctions and thereby ingendring strife and puzzling both themselves and their hearers Sect. IIX Once more you quarrell with Sir Henry Vane and cry out against him for holding an universall Liberty and Toleration in matters of Religion and yet you do not take upon you to answer those Scriptures ar●uments and reasons of State which are alledged for an universall Liberty For my part I am not fully acquainted with his judgment touching this point which hath been so much controverted in our time but if he ●e for such a Liberty without exception or restraint why should you quarrel with him specially considering how the case stands with us in these Nations both as to the Parliament Army Navy Ministry and Churches more then with Luther Austin and other Fathers Admit their opinion that are for an universall Liberty be a mistake yet it is far lesse dangerous then theirs that would have few or none tolerated but such as concurre with them in every thing as if they onely had monopolized to themselves a spirit of infallibility The weapons of your warfare should be spirituall and heavenly not carnall and worldly Nor is the Gospel in the power of it planted or propagated by the Civil or Martiall Sword but by the Spirit of God in preaching prayer Christian conference and a holy conversation This is the best way to convince opposers and gainsayers instructing them in meekn●sse and in a spirit of love whereas if you take violent courses and fignt against the errors of the times with prisons dungeons fetters this will but make men the greater hypocrites and even times more the children of the devil●hen they were before nay they will glory in their suffrings and by this means their number will dayly increase in the Land as the Quakers have done of late years for which we may thank such as you are who by your passionate and violent actings have made them the more confide●t of their d●ngerous and wicked opinions Would to God the Ministers of the Gospel would not onely preach well out of a pulpit but also expresse more self deniall wisdome meeknesse charity and mortification in their actions and live up to the rules of the Gospel and then I doubt not but the Ministry would be more reverenced and Errors would vanish and disappear as the clouds do at the bright shining of the Sun Most men that now plead against Toleration of diversity of R●ligions their own being most countenanced by the Civil power would plead as much for a generall Toleration if they were once under hatches and their Religion discountenanced by the Magistrate Herein commonl●Christians are disposed and affected according to the practise of that Countrey or Kingdome where they live If a Protestant yea a Calvinist live in a Pop●sh Countrey he will plead for Toleration so will a Papist living in a Protestant Countrey where diversity of Religions is not Tolerated The Ancient fathers that lived in times of persecution the first three hundred yeares after Christ pleaded against all kind of violence for Religion as appears by the sayings of Lactantius Tertullian and others But on the contrary the latter Fathers having the Emperours Christian and on their side pleaded against Toleration and incited the Magistrate to violent courses against such as were of a different perswasion Sect. IX I dare not positively affirm that the Civil Magistrate is not to intermeddle at all in matters of Religion for it is his duty to provide for and incourage all the faithfull Preachers and Professours of the Gospel and to be a nursing Father to the Churches of Christ but how far the Magistrate is to proceed in suppressing erroneous Doctrines and where the bounds are to be set beyond which he is not to go I suppose a wiser man then Master Baxter cannot easily determine Ke●kerman a learned Writer saith that the bond between the Magistrate and his Subjects is essentially Civil It seems he was not of your opinion that Magistracy is from Christ as Mediator for if this were true then every Magistrate that doth not submit to