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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49130	A review of Mr. Richard Baxter's life wherein many mistakes are rectified, some false relations detected, some omissions supplyed out of his other books, with remarks on several material passages / by Thomas Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1697 (1697)	Wing L2981; ESTC R32486	148,854	314

of the peaceable the discountenance of godliness and the insulting scorn of the profanest in the Land And many hundred swearing drunken ignorant scandalous negligent Ministers are cast out and we have now many humble godly painful Teachers in a County And as for the People he says in the same Epistle to his Gildas That most of them wherever he came did make Religion and reading the Sacred Scriptures or speaking of the way to Heaven the matter of their bitter scorn and reproach He spares not to Revile the Royal Martyr as if he intended to justifie his Murder King Charles saith he by the Bishops instigation kept Mr. Pryn long in Prison and twice cropt his Ears for writing against their Masks and Plays and the high and hard proceedings of the Prelates though the Archbishop whose Head they cut off for less shewed greater Crimes of which he was proved guilty in his Speech in the Star-Chamber This was not such a fast as God required to loose the bands of wickedness to undo the heavy burthens to break every yoak and to let the oppressed to free This was the Hypocrite ' s fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness and to make their voice to be heard on high Isai 58.4 in the words of the proud Pharisee God I thank thee I am not as other men nor as this Publican as will appear to him that reads chap. 4. sect 1. and p. 154. where he raileth intolerably against the Rulers as Haters of practical godliness and of all that would but speak seriously of Heaven and tell Men of Death and Judgment and spend the Lord's day in preparation thereto that did but pray in their Families or reprove Drunkenness or Swearing What could any Papist say more to disparage the Church of England As to the inferiour Clergy he says p. 157. The Churches were pestered with abundance of meer Readers Drunken Profane and Debauched Men and many that had more plausible Tongues made it their chief business to bring those they called Puritans into disgrace So that I must needs say I knew no place in those times for he speaks of Men and Places within his knowledge where a Man might not more safely have been drunk every Week than to have gone to hear a Sermon if he had none at home Nor doth he spare those that died long before his memory p. 143. What Toys and Trifles did the ancient Reverend Fathers of the Church pester the Church with And what useless Stuff are many of their Canons composed of Three lamentable Vices did the Prelates of the Church commonly abound in Pride the Root and Contention and Vain-glory the Fruit c. to p. 149. where he is not ashamed to tell the World what Troubles the first Nonconformists raised at Frankfort against those Reformers and Confessors that were Exiled for maintaining the same Worship and Liturgy for the defence of which many Bishops and Ministers were suffering Martyrdom under the Papists No sooner were they the Nonconformists called home saith he p. 150. but some of them were so intemperate impatient and unpeaceable that some turned to flat Separation and flew in the faces of the Prelates with reviling Yet Mr. Baxter doth the same and accounts the requiring of Uniformity in the same or a better Worship to be a Persecution As for his Brethren he professeth to believe That England never had so able and faithful a Ministry since it was a Nation as at this day viz. Decemb. 4. 1655. in the heat of Rebellion yet he affirms Sure I am the change is so great within these Twelve years that it is one of the greatest joys that ever I had in the World to behold it But for the Prelatical Party he brings in some saying They are all empty careless if not scandalous and ungodly men And may we not conclude as Mr. Baxter doth p. 167. This is not a confessing sin but an applauding those whose sins they pretend to confess Mr. Baxter calls this Book Gildas Salvianus but he might have more truly entitled it Excidium Britannicum for that followed on it How Mr. Baxter can be excused from the guilt of Schism in the departing from the Communion of the Church after his Ordination and Subscription and Solemn Vows then made for more than Twenty years before the Impositions and Penalties enjoyned by the Secular Powers which he pleaded in his justification after the year 63. will be a very difficult if not an impossible work to him that considers Mr. Baxter's circumstances and actings I shall therefore only shew the heinous nature of that Sin as described by Mr. Baxter himself p. 741. of his Christian Directory That Schism is a sin against so many clear and vehement words of the Holy Ghost that it is utterly without excuse Whoredoms and Treason and Perjury are not oftner forbidden in the Gospel than this That it is contrary to the very design of Christ in our Redemption which was to reconcile us all to God That it is contrary to the design of the Spirit of Grace and the Nature of Christianity a sin against the nearest bonds of our highest relations a dividing of Christ or robbing him of a great part of his Inheritance That it is accompanied with Self-ignorance Pride and Vnthankfulness to God That Church-dividers are the most successful Servants of the Devil and serve him more effectually than open Enemies That it is a sin which contradicteth all God's Ordinances and Means of Grace a sin against as great and lamentable Experiences as almost any sin can be and this is a heinous aggravation of it that it is commonly justified and not repented of by those that commit it and the more heinous that it is commonly fathered upon God Therefore remember this that Schism and making Parties in the Church is not so small a thing as many take it for Yet this pious Man to keep his Proselytes from ever returning or repenting for Schism tells them in the Preface to his Plea for Peace That more like truth hath been said for the lawfulness of Anabaptism Polygamy Drunkenness Stealing and Lying in case of Necessity than any thing he ever yet read of for a full Conformity as he their describeth it Behold here the great Charity of Mr. Baxter which he extends rather to the Congregations of Schismatical Anabaptists and such as live in those detestable sins of Polygamy Drunkenness Lying and Stealing than to the most Solemn Assemblies of Conformists to which yet he hath often joyned himself in Communion How great soever his Knowledge was how strong soever his Faith yet wanting Charity the Sacred Scripture assures us that such a Man is but as sounding Brass or a tinkling Cymbal In the year 1658. just Ten years after that the best of Kings suffered by the worst of Men Mr. Baxter sets forth his Grotian Religion and through Grotius's sides strikes at the Head and Members of the Church of England with one blow For