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Ehe
L
IFE
óf
the
1.
I
Reverend
Sir
ST
f
the
great Favour of
my
Lord
Cbancellour's
Reprebenon,
I
came
to
underßand
how
long
a
time
I
have
fuffered in
my
Reputation
with
my Superiours
by
your mifunder-
flanding
me,
and
mifinforming others, as
if
when
I
was
to preach
before
the
King, I bad
foornfully refuted the Tippet as
a
Toy
:
when
as
the Searcher
and JudgeofHearts
doth know
that I
bad
no
inch thought
or
word.
I
was
fo
ignorant in
thafe
matters, as to think
thata
*As
it
is
in Tippet
bad
been
the
proper
Infign of
a
DrafDivinity
; and
Iveriy
thought
that
you
of-
the Uni-
fired it
me as froth
:
And
I
had
fo much pride as
to
be
famembat alhamed when you
offered
vcrfity.
it, that
I
mull
tell
you my
wantof
frech
Degrees,
and
therefore
gave
you
no
Anfwer
to
your
frri
offer
; but
to yourfecond
was
forced
to
fay
lit
belongeth
not to
me,
Sir]. And
I
Paid
not to you any more
;
nor
bad
any other
thought in
my
heart,
than
with
fame fhame
to tellyou
that
I
bad
no
Degrees
;
imagining
I
fhould
have
offended others,
and
made
my
Pelf
the laughter
or
[corn
of
many
; if
I
fhould
have
ufed
that
which
did
not
belong to me.
For
I
mull
profeß
that
I
no more
fcruple to
wear
a
Tippet
than a
Gown, or any
comely
Garment.
Sir,
Though this
be one
of
she fmalleß
of
all the Mifbakes which
of
late bave turned
to my
wrong, and
I
mull
confeß
that
my
ignorance
gave
you the
occafson,
and
I
am
far
from im-
puting
it
to
any ill
will in
you,
having
frequently beard
that
in
Charity, and
gentlemß
and
peaceableneß
of Mind
you
are very eminent;
yet
becaufe
I
mull
not contemn my
Efli-
mation
with
my Superiours,
I
humbly
crave
thatfavour and
pill-ice
of
you
(
which
I
am
confident
you
will
readily
grant me)
as
to
acquaint
thole
with
the
truth
of
this
bufneßwbom
upon
mißake
you
have
mißnformed
;
whereby
in relieving
the
Innocency
of
your Brother,
you
will
do
a
work
of
Charity and
Jußice,
and
therefore not
d
f
leafing unto
God,
and
will
much oblige,
June
ao.
166a.
SIR,
Your humble
Servant,
Richard Baxter.
I
have
the more need
of
your
Juflice
in
tbi
Cafe,
becaufe
my
dißante denial,
me aceeß
to
thofe
that
bave received
thefe
mifreports,
and
becaufe any
publick Vindication
of
my
felf,
whatever
is
fad
of me,
is
taken
as
an
unfufferable
Crime, and
therefore
I
am utterly
:inca-
pable
ofvindicating
my
Innocency or
remedying their
Mfaßes.
To
the Reverend and much Honoured Dr. Barks Dean
ofWellminßer,
Scc.
Thelè.
To
this
the Dr. returned
this
Civil peaceable Anfwer.
Hampton-
Court, June
23.
SIR,
i
Receivedyour Letter,
which].
Would
have
anfwered
fooner.if
the Meffenger
that
brought
1
it
bad returned,.
I
meal
confeß
I
was
a
little
furprized with
the beginning
of
it,
ae
I
was with
your
Name:
but when
I
readfurther
I
cea
ed
to
be
fo.
Sir,
I
fhould
be
heartily
* O
that
lorry
and
afhamed
to be
guilty of
any
thing like.Malignity or.Uncbaritableneß,
offecially
to
they
were
one
-of
your
Condition
; with
whom though
I
concur not perhaps
in
point
ofJudgment
in
all
inch.
fame
particulars, yet
I
cannot but eßeem
for
your perfonal
worth and
abilities: And
indeed your
Expreffions
in
your Letter
are fo
civil
and
ingenuous,
that
I am
obliged thereby
the more
to
give
youall the
fatisfatlien
1
ean.
Al
I
remember then when you came to
me
to
the
Clofet,
and
I
toldyou
I
would
furnifh
you
with
a
Tippet
;
you anfwered me fometbing
to
that
purpofe
asyou
write;
but
whether thefame Numerical words,
or
but once,
I
cannotpo-
*
Thef ßtively
fay
from
my
own Memory,
and
therefore
I
believe
yours:
Oniy
this
I
am fare
of,
that
wrds.r
I
faid
to
you
at
my
frond
eakin
That
`
forme
others
of
your Perfwafson
bad
not
fervpled
beand
not,
y
y
f
g'
being in
at
it,
Which
might
fuppafe
(if
you
bad
not affirmed the
contrary) that
you
bad
made me
a
ffae former refufal:
Of
which
giving
me
thin
no
other reafan,
than
[
that it
belonged
not yo
u)
to
him.