Part lí1. Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter. 89 Death left a worfe fncceed him ; and that the number of Refolute.Men difobliged were fo great., as that if his Life were taken away, it would be revenged : That he intended no hurt to the Perfon of the D. of Ormond, butbecaufe he had taken. his Eftate from him, he would have forced him to reffore the value in Money : and that he never Robb'd, nor fhed Blood, which if he would have done; he could eafily have kill'd Ormond, and eafily have carried away theGrown. In a word he fo behaved himfelf, that the King did,not only releafe and pardon hiln, but admit him frequently to his pretence. Scone fay, becaufe his Gallantry took much with the King having been a Soldier of his Father's : Molt fay, That lie put the King in fear of his Life, and came off upon Condition that he would endeavour to keep the difcontented Party quiet. § 191. Mr. Bagfbary (in his rah and ignorant Zeal, thinking it a Sin to hear a Confoimilt,, and that the way to deal with the Perfecutorswas to draw all the People as far from them as we could, and not to hold any Communion withany that did Conform) having Printed his Third Reviling Libel againft nie, called for myThird Reply, which I Entitled [The Church told of &c. ] But being Printed without Licenfe, Leftrange, the Searcher, Surprized part of it in the Prefs ( there being lately greater Penalties laid on them that Print without Licenfe, than ever before :) And about the Day that it came out, Mr. Bagfhaw died (aPrifoner, though not in Prifon :) Which made it grievous to me to think that I muff teem to write againft the Dead. While we wrangle here. in the dark, we are dying and pallingto the World that will decide all our Controvernes : And the fafeft Palfage thither is bypeaceable Halinefr. § 196. About Yon. i. the King ceded his Exchequer to be flirt up So that whereas a multitude of Merchants, andothers, hadput their Money into the Ban- ker's hands, and the Bankers lent it to the King, and the King gave Order to pay out no more of it, of a Year the murmur and complaint in the City wasvery great, that their Eftates Ihould be (as theycalled it) fo fiirprized: Andthe ra- ther, becaufe it being fuppofedto be in order to the Matting of theFrench ina War againft the Dutch, they took a Year to be equal to perpetuity, and theftop to bea lofs of all, Peeing Wars ufe to increafe Neceflities, and not to liiipply them. And among others, all the Money ( and Efface, except i o 1. per Ann. for r r or 12 Years) that I had in the World of my own (not given away to others, whom Charity commanded me to give it to for their Maintenance, before) was there : which indeed was not my own ; which I will mention to Connie! any Man that would do good, to do it fpeedily, and with all their might. I had got in all my Life the jolt Simi of ioca 1. Having no Child, I devoted almolt all of it to a Chari- table life (aFree-School, dre.) I ufed my belt and ableft Friends for 7 Years with all theSkill and lndeftry I could, to help me to Tome Pnrchafe of Houleor Land to lay it out on, that it might be accordingly fetled : And though there werenever more Sellers, I could neverby all thefe Friends hear of any that Keaton could en- courage a Man to lay it out on as meant, and a tolerable Bargain: So that I told them, I did perceive the Devil's Refiftance of it; and did verily fi$pe& that he would prevail, and I Ihonld never fettle, but it would he loft : So hard is it to do any good when a Man is fully refolved, that divers fuch Obfervations verily confirm nie, That there are Devils that keep up a War againft Goodnefs in the World. 197. The great Preparations of the French to invade the Onited Provinces, and of the Engle to afhít them, do make now the Proteftants Hearts to tremble, and to think that the Low Countries will be Conquered, and with them theProtefáant Caufe deeply endangered : ( Though their vicious worldly Lives deferve God's Judgments on themfelves ; yet they are a great part of the Proteffants Humane Strength.) But the Iffue molt expound God's purpofes, without which Men's De- ligas are vain. § 198. This Year a new Play-Houfe being built inSalisbury -Court in Fleet-Street, called the Duke of York's, the LordMayor (as is faid) defiredof the King, that it might not be; theYouth of the Citybeingalready focorruptedby Senfual Pleafures; but he obtained not his delire : And this_tan. 1671. the King's Play-Houle inDrury M m m m Lane,
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