PA f; T II. Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter. 219. keep an Amanuenfis, and had not leifure my felf -to tranfcribe,. yet as it .well hap= pened I had got a Friend to writeme. a Copy of my Rejoinder : For it fell out that theCarrier loft the Copy which 1 gave him to carry toLondon; and profeffed that henever knew' what became of it t And no wonder, when 1 after learnt that my Antagonift lived within five or fix Miles of me, whom I fùppoled tohave lived one hundredand fifty Miles off t When I expe&ed an Anfwer,. I:receiveda Month of -, ter an Infulting Challenge of a fpeedy Anfwer, and this feconded with another, all calling for hatte. Ifuppofe he thought I had kept no Copy, but as foon as I could get.it cranfcrib'd Ifent it him ; and I heard no more of Mr. fobnfon in a Twelve- month. When I was at London I went to Mr. Langhorne, and defired him to pro- cure me an Anfwer to mÿ Papers from Mr. 7pbnfon., or that I might know that I fhould have none: At lait he told me that Mr. Johnfan would come fpeak with me himfèlf; which hedid, and would have put off all the.Bufrefs_wirh a few. Words but would promüè me no Anfwer. At laut by Mr. Tiilorfon I was inform- ed that his true Namewas 2rres, ,and that he lived in the Houle of a certain Nom bleman near our parts, and that being much in London, he is. there the chief He&or, or great Difputer for the Papifts ; and that he was the chief. of the two Men who had held and printed the Difpute with Dr. Pierfon and Dr. Gunning: And when I lawwhat Advantage he had got by printingthat Difpute, I relolved that he Ihould not do fo by me, and fo I printed all our Papers ; but before 'printed them, I urged him to tome farther Conference ; and at our next meeting I told him how neceffary it was that we fhould agree hilt of the meaningofour Terms, and I wrote down Comefew [ as Church, Pope, Council, Bithop, Herefy, Schifìn; ter.] which I defired him toexplain to me under his Hand promifing him the like whenever he defired it ; which when Thad got from him, I gave him fomé Ani madverfionson it, ¡hewed their Implications ; to which he anfwered, and to.that I replyed : And when he came no more to me, nor gave meany Anfwer, I printed all-together ; which made him think it neceffary at lait to write a Confutation: whereto I have Gnce published a full. Rejoinder to which I can procure no An- fwer. 4 84. And not long after, hearing that theCounted of Balrarres was not well, I went to tilther, and found her grievoufly aftii&ed for her eldeft Daughter, the Lady Ann Lindfey about fixteen or feventeen Yearsof Age, who was fuddenly turn- ed Papift by the knew not whonf. She told me, that when the firf heard of it the defired Dr. Gunning tomeet with thePried to difpute with him, and try if her Daughtermight be recovered, who pretended then to bein Doubt : And that Dr. Gurnung fin i began to perfuade her Daughter againft the Church of Scotlandwhich the had been bred in, as no true Church, and after difputed but about the Pope's Infallability, and left her Daughter worfe than before ; and that the took it to be a Irrange way to deliver her Daughter. fromPopery, to begin with a Condemnation of the Reformed Churches as no true Churches, and confeti that the Church and Miniltry of Rome' was true. She defired me that I would (peak to her Daughter, and try whether the would yet enter into Conference about the Reafon of her Faith. But the utterly- refufed it, and would fay nothing to that purpofe, but re- fer us to the Church, and profefs heracquiefcence in itsJudgment, and when I defired .toknow of her, how (he knew what was the Judgment of the Church ; whether it were not meerly the Word of the Pried that fatisfied her inthis, and therefore defired her that the would hear that Pried or Jefuit on whole Word 1hé built all her Faith, in the Pretence of fame one that was fit tohelpher in the Try- al of his Affertions, and intreated her to procure a Conference in her hearing' be- tween him and me, the promifed readily that it Ihould be done: The next 'time I came again, and asks whether the had (poke with him about it, and whether time . and place were agreed on; the confidently told me that he was ready to do it when I pleated, and that all he defired was, that my $romife might fecure him fromAc-. cufation, and from the danger of the Law, and that was all that he wasfelicitous for. I offered her tobring only two Wimeffes on each fide, and thatwe might have two days Conference or Difpute; in one of which hé Ihould give his Rea- Ions why fhe ought tochangeher Religion, and I would anfwerthem; and in the other I would give my Reafons why the ought not to change, and he Ihould An- fwer me; and I thought this the cleared andmolt impartial Method for the die corning of the Truth. And I promifed her all the Security which I could pro- cure him from anydanger. The next time I carneto know the Day; the told me theGentleman would not meet nor difpute t I defired to,knowghe Reafon: But Ste told me that the did not know her Pelf I intreated her to.pràsure fume other F f z to`
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