ANN 378 i he L I F h of the Lis.!, between Dr. Thomas Hill,. then Mager of Trinity CoiIedge in Cambridge, and - me, a- bout the Point of I- Phyfical efficient-Predetermination as neceJry to every Allion natural andfree ]: I had written largely and earneftly, againff Predetermination, and he a little for it : In theend of it the Calamities of the Se&arian times, and fume Sickueffesamong my Friends, had occafioned me to vent my moan to him as my Friend ; and therein to (peak of the doubtfulnefs of the Caufeof the formerWar, and what reafòn there was to bediligent in íearch and prayer about ir. When Dr. Hia wasdead, Dr.Boreman came to fee there Papers : BOth theSubjects hemuff needs know were fuch, as tended rather to my Etteem , than to my .Difparage- ment with the Men of thefeTimes. Certainly the Arminiant will be angry with no Man fer being.againf-Predetermination ; and I think they will pardon him for queftioning the Parliaments Wars: Yet did this dilingenious Dr. make a Book on this occafion, to feekPreferment by reproaching me, for he knew not what: But to make up the matter, he writeth that it is reported, That I kill'd a Man in sold blood with my non hands in the Wars s Whereas God knoweth, that I never hurt a Man in myLife, rio never gavea Man aflroke (fave one Man, when I was a Boy, whole Legg I broke with wreftling in jell ; which almoff broke my heart with grief, though he was quickly cured). But the Dr. knowing that this might be loon difproved,,cautiou(ly gave mefome Lenitives to perfwade me to bear it patiently, telling me that if k be not true, I amnot the firft that have been thus abufed : but for ought I know,he is.the firft that thus abated me. I began to write anAnfwer to thisBook ; but when I faw that Men did but laugh at it, and thofe that knew the Man delpifed it, and diffwadedme from anfwering fuch a one, I laid it by. § 2 to. When the Bifhop's Inve&ive was read, many Men were of many minds, abort the an(wering of it : Thole at a diftance all cried out upon me to anfwer it s Thofe at hand didall diirwade me, and told. me that it would be Imprifonment at lealt to me, if I-did k with the greatefi truth and .mildnefs poflible. Both Gentle- menand all the City Minifters told me, that-it would not do- halffo muchgood, as my Suffering-woulddo hurt : and that none believed it but the engaged Party, and that toothers an Anfrrer was not necerfary, and to them it was unprofitable, for they would never read it. And I thought, that the Judgment of Men that were upon the place, and knew how things went, was moft to be regarded. But yet I wrote afull Anfwer to his Book, (except about the words in my Holy Com- monwealth, which were not to be fpoke co) and kept it by me , that I might ufe it as therewas occafion. At that time Mr. fofeph Glanvile fent.me the offer of his Service to write in my Defence, (He that wrotethe Vanity of Dogmatizing, and a Trearife for the. Praeooiflenceof Souls, being a Platonif, of freeJudgment , and ofad- mired Parts, and now one of the Royal Society of. Philofophers, and one that had a tooesceffive eftimation of me, as far'abovemy defers, as the malicious Party erred on the other tide) : But 1 diffwadedhim frombringing himfelfinto Suffering, and makinghimfelf unferviceable for fo low anend : Only I gave him (and no Man elfe) my own Anfwer to perufe, which he returned with his Approbation of it. § 26o. But Mr. Edward Bagfhaw (Son to Mr. Bagßraw the Lawyer, that wrote Mr. Bolton's Life), without my knowledge wrote a Book in Anfwer to theBilhops: I could have wilst he had letit.alone : Forthe Man bath no great difputing Fa- culty, but Only a florid Epiftolary Stile, and waswholly a Stranger to me, and to the. Matters of Fa& , and therefore could fay nothing to them : But only being of a:Bold and Roman Spirit, he thought that no Suffering títould deter a Man from the fmallefl Duty, or caufe him tohence any uleful Truth: And I had formerly Peen a Latin Difcourfeof his againit Monarchy, which no'whit pleafedme,, being a weak Argumentation for -a bad Caule. So that I defired no fuch Champion : fhortly after he went over with the E.of Aoglefey, whofe Iloufhold Chaplain he was, into lreland,and having preached there fome times, and returning back, was appre- hended, and fens Priloner to the Tower: where he continued long till his Means wassall:fpent., and how he bath lince procured Bread I know nor. When he had been Prifoner about a year, it feems he was acquainted with Mr. Davis, who was alb, a Prifòner in the Tower : This Mr. Davis having been very ferviceable in the Refforationof the King, and having laid out much of his Eftate for his Service, thought he might be the bolder with his Tongue and Pen, and being of a Spirit which fome called undaunted, but others, furious, or indifeeet at belt, did-give art unmannerly liberty. to'his Tongue, to accufe the Court of fuch Crimes, with fuch Aggravations, as being a Subje&, I think it not meet to name. Atlaff, he talkt freely
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