388 Mr. NEAL's IId Vol. of the State of Things.' Abundance of Paffages to the fame purpofe might be produced from the fame Book. And the famed P: f age printed in various Editions of his Saints Everlajling Refl, before the Reftmation ; tho' left out, if I am rightly inform- ed, in the fubfequent Editions ; is a further Proof of it. * I think (fays he) Chriflians, this will be a more honourable Affembly, than you ever here beheld ; and a more happy Society than you were ever of before. Surely Brook, and Pym, and Hampden, and White, &c. are now Members of a more knowing, unerring, well - ordered, right- ' aiming, felf- denying, unanimous, honourable triumphant Senate, than this, from whence they were taken, is, or ever Parliament will be.' And I don't find that this Confcientious Man ever retrac- ted thefe Rebellious Principles ; tho' I find him fcrupulóufly retracing much leis Crimes. ¡-' Tho' my Confcience (lays he) would trouble me, when I finned, yet divers Sins I was addided to, and oft committed againft my Confcience ; which for the warning of others, I will here confefs to my fhame. I was much addicted to the exceífive gluttonous eating of Apples and Pears; which I think laid the Foundation of the Imbecillity, and Flatulency of my Stomach, which caufed the bodily Calamities of my Life. To this end, and to con ' cur with naughty Boys, that gloried in Evil, I have oft gone into other Mens Orchards, and L flol'n the Fruit, when I had enough at home.' There are fix other Retrations; at the endofwhich, he concludes : ' Thefe were my Sins, which, in my Childhood, Confcience troubled me for a great while, before they were overcome.' Saints E'verlaflingRe/t, printed for Tho. Underhill, 16p2,. Penes me. 3d Edition. -- Mr. Baxter's Life, written by himfelf, and publifh'd in Foi o, by Mat. Sidvef#er, 1696. p. z. Neal,
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