PAli T II. Reverend Mr. RichardBaxter. ' of Man. In which Art, by the Bleflingof God upon thetn, they fem to me to defign fuch a Regiment of Health, and loch anexalt Infpe&ion into all Difeafes, and Knowledge of all Medicament, and,Prudenceof Application of the fame,thac ` the Bookof divine Providence feemeth to provide for the lengthnin of theLife of Man again, in this latter End of the World, whichwould beno finali Advan- tage unto all kinds of good Learning and Government. And doth not fuch a thing.feem to be Prophefed, Efay. 6ç. co. If the Child fhall die one hundredTears old, ofwhat Age (had the old Man be ? But I would not be too bold with the ` Holy Scriptures. If unto all this, it may pleafe the Lord todire& his People into a Divine Fortis of Civil Government, of fuch a Conffitution, as that the Godly, Learned in all Places, may be in all Places of Power and Rule, this would fo much the more advance all Learning, and Religion, and good Government ; fo that all the World ' would become a Divine Colledge. And Lally, when Antichrift is overthrown, ` and a divine Form of Church-Government is put in pra&ice in all Places ; ` then all the World would become Divine : or at leaf!, all the World would be- ` come very Divine or veryProphane, Rev. zz. x 1, r ç. And fo the World fhould ` end as it began, Gen. 4. z6. force calling on the Name of the Lord, and fome prophaning is ; eminently diffinguilh'd from each other. I rejoice, to fee and talle the wonderful gracious Savour of God's Spirit among his Saints, in their ' humble Retirements. Oh ! how fweet is the trodden Cammomile ! How pre- ' cious and Powerful is the Miniftry of the Crofs ! It is a dryer time withus, who ` are makingafter Compliances with the Stream. Sir, I befeech you, let us have a (hare inyour holy Prayers, in your holy Retirements, in your bleffed Cham- hers, when theLord flints the Door, and yet is among you himfelf, and maketh ` yourHearts to burn by the Power of his Prefence. Thus commendingyou and `all' your holy Labours to theLord, and to the Word of his Grace, I refs Roxbury, this 6th of the 5th. 166;. -Tour unworthy Fellow-Labourer In the Lord's Vineyard, John Eliot. To his Reverend Friend and Brother, Mr. Baxter. a95 The Anffiver: Nov. ; o. from A&on, near London. Reverend and much honouredBrother, 'THough our Sins havefeparated us from the Peqple of our Loveand Care, and deprived us of all publick Liberty of preaching the Gofpel of our Lord, I ` greatly rejoice in the Liberty, Help and Succefs, which Chrift bath fo long vouchfafedyou in his Work. There -is no Man on Earth, whole Work I think '. more Honourable and Comfortable than yours : To propagate the Gofpel and Kingdom of Chrift, unto thofe dark Parts of the World, is a better Work than ` our hating and devouring one another. There are many here that would be ` ambitious of being your Fellow-Labourers but that they are informed, you have ` accefs to no greater a. Number of the Indians, than you your felt, and your pre- `feet Alfiltants are able to inftrub. An honourable Gentleman (Mr. Rob. Boyle, the Governor of the Corporation for your Work, a Man of great Learning and Worth, and of a very publick univerfal Mind) did Motion to mea publick Col- ' le&ion, in all our Churches, for the maintaining of fuch Miniflers, as are wit- ' ling to go hence to you, partly while they are learning the Indian Language, and partly whilethey after labour in the Work, as alto to tranfport them : But I find thofe backward to it, that I have fpoke to about it, partly fufpe&ing it a De- ' fign ofchofe that would be rid of them ; ( but if it would promote the Work of God, this Obje&ion were too carnal to he regarded by good Men) partly fearing ` that when the Money is gathered, the Work may be fruffrated by the alienation of
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