Part III. Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter. i7t And therefore Grotiec de Impel,. Sum. Pot. would rather have the Name Canana or Rulers ufed than Larva as to their Determinations : Though no doubt but the Name [Government ] may be well applyed to the Paftor's Part, fowe diftinguifn as Billion and other judicious men ufe to do, callingone [Government by God's Word ( upon the Confcience ) and the other Government by the fiord. J (as feconding Precepts with enforcing penalties and Mulas. ) § 301. While this Teft was carrying on in thehoufe of Lords, and goo pounds Voted to be the penalty of the Refufers, before it could cometo the Commons, a difference fell between the Lords and Commons about their priviledgcs, by occalion of twoSuits that were brought before the Lords, in which two Members of the Commons were parties, which occafioned the Commons to fend to the Tower, Siryob): Fagg one of their Members, for appearingat the Lords Bar without their confent, and four Counfellours ( Sir YOhn Churchill, Sergeant Pemberton, Sergeant Fake, and another ) for pleading 'there; And the Lords Voted it Illegal, and that they íhouldbe releafed : Sir Bohn Robinfon, Lieutenant of the Tower obeyed the Commons, for which the Lords Voted him a Delinquent ; And fo far went they indaily Voting at each other, that the King was fain to Prorogue the Parliament, 5une 9. till Otlober 13. there appearing no hope of Reconciling them, Which rejoiced many that they rofe without doing any further harm. §. 302. qune 9. Keting, the Informer being, commonly deterred for profecuting me,was caft in Gaol for Debt, and wrote to me to endeavour his Deliverance, which I did ; and in his Letters, faith [ "Sir, I affure your I do verily believe "that God hath bellowed all thisaffli&ion onme becaufe I was fo vile a wretch " as to trouble you : And I atfure you I never did a thing in my Life that hath " fo much troubled my felfas that did : I pray God forgive me : And truly I do " not thinkof any that went that way to work that everGod would favour him "withhis mercy : And truly without a great deal of mercy from God - I donot " think that ever I Pull thrive or profper ; And I hope youwill be pleafzed topray " to God for me, ¿re.] S. 303. A while before another ofthe chief Informers of the City and myAc= enfer (Nlar all) died in theCounter where his Creditors laid him, tokeep hini from doingmore harm:) Yetdid not the Bithops changeor ceafe Twomore In- formers werefet on work, who firft affaulted Mr. Cafe's Meeting, and next got in as hearers into Mr. Read's Meeting where I was Preaching ; And whenthey would have gone outto fetch Juftices ( for they were known) the doors were lockt to keep them in till I haddone, andoneof them (fuppofed to be fent from Fullum ) Rayedweeping : Yet went they ftraight to the Jultices, and the week following heard me again as Informers at my Ledures; but I have not yet heard of their Accufation. S. 304. But this week (9'une9.) Sir Thomas Dante (notwithstanding all his forefaidWarnings and Confeflions) fent his Warrants to a Justice of the Divifion where I dwell, to diftrein on me (upon two Judgments) fir go pounds for Preaching my Leiture in Newftreet: Some Conformifs are paid to the value of iopounds a Sermon for their Preaching, and I ma pay Zöpounds and 4o pounds a Sermon for Preaching for nothing ; O what Paftors path the Church of England, who think it worth all their unwearied Labours, and all the odium which they . contrast from the People, to keep fuch as I am, from Preaching the Gofpel of Chrilt, and to undous for it as far as they are able, though then many years they do not ( for they cannot) accule me for one wordthat ever I Preached : nor. one Anion elfe that I have done : While the greater of theHilltops Preach not thrice a year (as theirNeighbours fay) themfelves. §. 305. The dángerons Crack over the Market-houfe at St. ames's put many upon defiring that I had a larger fafer place for Meeting. And though my own dulnfs, and great backwardnefs to troublefome bufinefs made me very averle to fo great an undertaking, judging that it being in the faceof the Court, it would never be endured, yet the great and uncellant importunityof many ( out of a fervent delre of the goodof Souls ) did conftraïn me to undertake it : And when it was almoftfinned (in Oxenden-ireee ) Mr. Henry Coventry, one of his Majeltiesprin- cipal Secretaries, who had a houle joyning to it, and was aMember of Parliament, fpake twice againftit,in the Parliament: But no one feconded him. §. 3o6. ¡think meet to recite the names and liberality of force of thòfe pious and perfons who contributed towards the buildingof this place ( The Yyyy x money
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