PA ß T II. Reverend Mr, Richard Baxter. 365 ferious, and Paid, That I was fevere and ftriet, like a Melancholy Man, and made thofe things Sin which others did not : And I perceivedhe hart beenpoffeffedwith difpleafure towards me upon that account, that I charged the Church and Liturgy with Sin; and hadnot fuppofed that the worn was but inexpedient,}. I told him that I had fpokennothing but what I thought, and had given my Reafons for- - After other fuch Difcourfe, we cravedhis Favour to procure the Ding's Declarati- on yet to be paf into an Aft, and his Advice what we had further to do. He contented that we fhould draw up an Addrefs to his Majefty; rendering him an account of all ; but defired that wewould firft %hew it him : which we promi- fed. 238. When we Ihewed our Paper to the Lord Chancellour ( which the Bre- thren had defired me to draw up, and had contentedto without any alteration) he was not pleatedwith Tome Paffages isY it, which he thought too .pungent or pref- ftng : but would not bid us put them out. So we went with it to the Lord Chàm- berlain(who had heard from the Lord Chancellor about i9,andI read it to him al -' fo, and he was carnet with us to blot out fome Paffagesas toovehement, and filch as would not well be born. f was very loth to leave them.out, but Sir Gilbert Ger- rard (an ancient godly Man) being with him, and of the fame min.:, I yielded ( having no remedy, and being unmeet tooppofetheir Wifdomsanyfurther): And fo what they Scored under we left out, and prefented the reft to his Majefty after- wards. But when we came to prefentit, the Earl ofMantbefler fecretly told the reft, that ifDr. Reignoldy DY. Bates, and Dr. Manton would deliver it, it.would be the moreacceptable ( intimating that I was grown unacceptableit Court) : Bur they would not go without me, and he profeft he defirednot myExcluflon : But when they told me of ir, I took my leave of him, and was going away : But hé and they carne after me to theStairs, and importuned me to ieturn,and I went with them to takemy Farewel of this Service. But I refolved that I would not be the Deliverer of any of our Papers (though I had got them tranfcribed and brought them thither): So we defired Dr. Manton to deliverour Petition, and with it the fair Copiesof all our Papers to theBifhops ( which was required of us for the King). And when BithopReignoldr hadfpoken a few words, Dr. Manton deliver- ed them to the King ; who received them and the Petition, but did not bid us read it at all. At laß, in his Speeches, fomething fell in which Dr. Manton told him that the Petition gavehim a fullaccount of, ifhis Majefty pleated to give him leave toread it ; whereupon he had leave to read it out. Theoccation was,a (bort Speech which I made to informhis Majefty how far we were agreed with the Bi- Mr.cala- limps, and wherein the difference did not lye, as in the Points of Loyalty, Obe- mó7of dience, Church - Order, &c. ThisDr. Manton alto fpake: And the King put the this time Queßiore, [ But wbo!ball be judge] And I anfwered him, That Judgment is fick,or either publick or private : Private Judgment called Difretionis, which is but the ufe ,emt of a of my Reafon to condubtmy Abtions, belongeth to every private rational' Man,: he artwhieli had re Pablick fudgment is Ecciefaßical or Civil, and belongeth accordingly to the É'zEle- ceived. frafbtoal Governours (or Paffors) and the Civil; and not to any private Man. And this was the endof thofe Affairs. § 239.1 will give you the Copyof thePetition juif as I drew it úp, becante t.Here you may fee what thofe words were which could not be tolerated; 2.Becaufe it is but fuppofing the under-fcored Lines to be blotted out, and you have itas it was prefented without any Alteration; For thofe under/cored Liner were all the words' . that were left our.
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