PA i T II. Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter. I appealed to the Auditors of his Party ; . and they gave no Anfwer : Dr. Bat. witneffed it, Dr. yacomb offered his Oath of it. He told them that they were Parties. By this time' fawmine Error, in giving way for their Doelors to crowd in to applaud them and witnefs for them, when we had none (or next tonone) of ours there, fuppofingby the Agreement three only muff have Rayed. § 227. When Dr. Gunning had read his infulting Anfwer the day before, and made a great matter of my telling the Refpondent of [begging the Qeftion] :hey put Dr. Sanderfn, Bifhop of Lincoln, into theChair,that his Learning and Gravity might put a Reputationupon his Sentence (he being a very worthy Man, but for that great Pievilhnefs, which Injuries, Partiality,_Temperature and Age had cau- fed in him) : The Bifhop in a few angry Words pronounced thát Dr. Gunni g had the better, and that the Refpondent could norbeg the Queftion, and that I was a Man of Contention if I offered to Reply.) I toldhim, that thoughwe reveren- ced much his Lordfhip's Age and Learning, yet hewas but a Party, andno Judge : which yet if he were, it was fo ftrange to us that a Man lhould be prohibited to reply, and a Cenfure antidated paired on that Reply before it was heard, and on the Replyers for it, that we craved his Lordlñip's Pardon ifwe difobeyed him,' and gave in our Reply, whichmight have more in it than he could forefee. And the next Day when I gave in the Reply (before infected) there was no fuch Infulting as before. § 228. When Dr. Gunning had read his Citations ofTeftimonies of the Senfe of Rom. 14, and Is. Bifhop Coffin, called to all the Bithops and Doors in the Room for theirVotes, [All you that think that Dr.Guningbat, proved that Rom.14.fpeaketb, not of receiving to the Sacrament, fay, I.] And fo theyall eryed, I. I told him that weknew their Opinion before; and if this were the life that he madeof our Con- ceflión, that they Mould be all prefent while ours were all abfent (fave two or three Scholars, and twoor three Gentlemen thatftood behind tohear) it (hewed that their Caufe was very needy of Defence, when their own Voices muff go in- Bead of Argument : But if they wouldgo on upon fuch lamentable Reafoning as they had ufed, to call out the faithful Pallors and the People, and divide the Church, and a@li& their Brethren, the Day was coming when their own Votes lhould not abfolve them. § 229. Hereupon we fell again upon the point of Charity and Compafonito the Church, and their fruftrating the King's Cemmilïon, and the Kingdoms Hopes. And when they profeffed their Delires of the Churches Peace, I told them they would not abate the fmalleft Thing, nor corre& their groffeftErrors for it : And hereupon I read over to them the Preface (drawn up by Mr. Calamy) before our Reply to their Anfwer to our Exceptions againft the Liturgy, which reciting their Corruptions, and Ihewed their Unpeaceablenefs, offended but filenced them. I z ;o. By this time the Evening of bur Laft Day was far gone; and I defired to know. of them, whetherwe lhould continue our Difpute any further, as Private Men Voluntarily among our (elves ; for I had many more Arguments, which I defired before to have read all at once, but could not be permitted : Or whether they would receive my Arguments, and the Reply which I lalt read. Dr. Pierfon refolved that he would meddle no more after that Night. Bifhop Morleyfaid, he thought it unfit when the King'sCommilfion was expired that we lhould meddle in it any farther. But Dr. Gunning and I had fo much mind to it, (for I knew that almoll all my Argumentswereyet behind, and it was a Caufe that might eafly be made very plain) that I told him, I would venture on the Danger for the Love of Charity and Peace, and he agreed that I lhould fend him in all my Arguments, with the laft Reply ,(which he had not anfwered) the next Day. § z; I. Laftly, I defired BifhopMorley to refolve us what Account we were jointly to give his Majefty of our Proceedings, that we might not wrong each other : And by his and their Content it was agreed on, that we givenothing in oar Ac- count to the King as charged on one another, but what is delivered in by the party in Writing : And that all our account was to be this, That we were all agreed on the End, for the ChurchesWelfare, Unity, and Peace, and his Majefty's Happi- nefs and Contentment, but after all our Debates, were difagreed of the means. And this was the End of that Affembly and Commiffion. § a;z.As foon as we were gone,' delivered my Papersto aScribe to be tranfcrib'd And about Eight a Clockor Nine, juff as Iwas entring the Door of myLodging, Dr. Gunnig's Meffenger comes to me, to tell me, that uponfurther Confderation, hefhould receive no more Papers from me after that Day, and fo our farther trou- ble was prevented. 4233. 35'7
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