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·<irace·
~~ounding
at
Bedf()rd
died ;
and he was
Chofen
to
_ that Care
~f Soul~,
on
th~
twelfth
of
De-
·
cember
t67l·
And in this
his
Charge,
he
eften
had
difputes
with
Scholars,
that came
to
oppofe
him, as fuppofing hin1 an
Ignorant
Perfon., and thought
he
Arg,ued plainI
y,
·and
by
Scripture without Phrafes and Logical
Exp• effions;
yet
be
nen-plufued
one who
cam.e to ·oppofe
him
in his
Congrega,tion ;.
, by demanding whether
or .no,
we had the
true
Copies of the Original
Scriptures;
and
another,
when
he
was Preaching-Accufed
him of
uachari.t3blenefs,
for faying
it
nMs
ve.ry
hard for moft to be
[t~ved,
faying,
by
that
he
went
about
to exclude moft of his
Coa-
. gregation ;
but
lle
confuted him"' . and put·
l1im
to filenee, with
the
Parable of
the
Stpny
ground, and other Texts out of the
13
of
Mtitt.
in our Saviours Sermon "out
of
a Ship
;_,
.all
his Method being to
keep
clofe
lO
the, ·
·- -
7
"Scriptures,
and
what he fou.Ad not warranted·.
-· there, himfelf would not warrant or qeter–
mine, unlefs
in
fuch cafes ·as were plain ;
_wherein
no
doubts
or fcruples did
arife.
.
·But _not to
make
any
further n1entioh
of
this kind ;
it
is well
kn0wn
that this Perfon
•I
managed
a'll his affairs with
fuch
exact'ne.fs.,
as.
if
he
had
tnade jt his
ftudy
abov·e
all
other.–
thin~s
not
t9
give
occafion
of offence,
b~t
,
rather
fuffer 1nany
inconveniences to
av~td
being
neyer heard , to Reproach,
~>r ~ev
Ile
any,
what
Injury
foever
he·
received, but
. rather