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A94086	Malice rebuked, or A character of Mr. Richard Baxters abilities. And a vindication oe [sic] the Honourable Sr. Henry Vane from his aspersions in his Key for Catholicks, as it was sent in a letter formerly to Mr. D.R. and is now printed for the publike satisfaction. / By Henry Stubbe of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.; Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Vindication of that prudent and honourable knight, Sir Henry Vane, from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Richard Baxter, minister of Kidderminster.	1659 (1659)	Wing S6060; Thomason E1841_2; ESTC R209630	32,090	64

displeased at it so neither is it good for the people who hereby are nourished up in a biting devouring wrathfull spirit one against another and are found transgressors of of that Royall law which forbids us to doe that unto another which we would not have them doe unto us were we in their condition This tenderness of Sr. H. V. might have been entertained with lesse opposition at least rage then it hath yet found in the spirits of many I never reflect thereon but methinks I see Stephen praying for them that stoned him and admire a Charity so diffusive as not to comprise onely friends but even enemies a love beyond that of Publicans towards them which hate despitefully use and persecute in fine a perfection like that of our Heavenly Father who besides that he makes them so endureth with much long suffering the vessells of wrath fitted for destruction though he wont not power though his knowledge by infallibly discerning and his justice in punishing both would be unquestionable He knoweth who are his yet doth he tolerate in his great house not only vessels of Gold and silver but also of wood and earth and some to honour some to dishonor But Mr. Richard Baxter Mr. Richard Baxter teacher of the Church at Kederminster Mr. Richard Baxter a Catholick Christian and pastour of a Church of such at Kederminster Mr. Baxter Envoy from heaven and Embassadour of Christ as he calls himself in the Dedicat of Saints everlast Rest he cannot endure this Tenet this compassionate tender and peaceable frame of spir it From this Candid principle and which allowed Mr. Baxter the liberty of his sentiments hath he taken an occasion in a late infamous Libell if so great a farce may be so termed called a Key for Catholiques to decry the Vanists with such language as may justly deserve that reply of Michael to the devill THE LORD REBUKE THEE But however this may be an Answer suitable to the Christian temper of Sr. H. V. and the quality of the person he hath to do with yet because severall weake ones may be betrayed into an ill opinion of that Honourable personage thorough that generall though undue esteem which Mr. Baxter hath gained in the World for Learning judgement and moderation whereby innocence may be distressed and railing become hallowed I shall vindicate Sr. H. V. from the reproaches of this Philistim or Shimei or Rabshakeh and defend that invidious Assertion but you must first give me leave to premise a character of the man As the man is so is his strength I cannot give you any account of the Birth or Education of Mr. Richard Baxter but I think I may say that he either never was at any Vniversity or made little stay there nor took any Degree unlesse the late perswasions of some may have prevailed with him who apprehended something of worth in him and were sensible how great a detriment might arise if Qualifications without university degrees should capacitate one for the Ministry in our days in a Time when ignorance or terrour or both had taken off the Ministers of this Nation from opposing those called Anabaptists then He tooke occasion to signalize himself by an intricate Dispute with honest Mr. Tombes and the Act being plausible the performance was thought great Since that time he hath aggrandized himself in the World and wanting not confidence to print what made for the interest of others he knew he could not faile of the applauds of such as however they might discover his weakness were concerned nor of the reall admiration of such as could not discerne I am a stranger to his life and report speaks not much to his disadvantage nor is he wanting to his own praises Whatever become of the precept let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth he in severall of his works acquainteth us with his charitableness to the poore and his care for the sick to whom he administers Physick Not that this successour of the Apostles delegated by the same commission Anoints them with oyle and so heales them or cures them as he walks by vertue of his shadowe nor doth he distribute hand-kerchiefes but all as I am told is atchieved by looch sanum and a liquorish stick or Gascoines powder c. Yea in his saints everlasting rest he is no lesse tiresome with the recitall of his infirmities and indisposition then is Balzac or Voiture in their letters with the Colick and feavour As for his learning the account he gives of himself is to have spent much time in reading over the Fathers of whose use or rather inutility read Daille the Schoole-men an upstart study unknown to the purer times modelled professed by that Order which now manageth the Inquisition and was at first erected for the suppressing the truth in the Abbigenses and Philosophers such as if the Apostle had not Authorised us to call Vaine their own writings would How much he hath benefited in these studies he hath endeavoured to give the World an account in a multitude of books which he voides continually Joachimus Fortius who was resolved to write a booke every yeere whilest he lived was but a slight pretender in comparison to Mr. Baxter's works And what Henry the fourth King of France said of King James that he was a fine King and wrote pretty little bookes this makes up but a part of Mr. Baxters commendations he writes not onely single sheets and little bookes but large volumes This tedious impertinent having run thorough the usuall method of English controvertists now assumes the fashion of the Dutch and that our countreymen may have something of novelty in his papers they who are in love with a lowe-dutch dresse may have recourse to Mr. Baxters disputations at Kederminster yea he out-goeth his pattern for theirs are disputes managed in vniversities but these Kederminsterian disputations have onely Mr. Br. for President Mr. Br. for respondent Mr. Br. for Opponent Thus I have seen some play at shittle-cock managing their battledoores in their right and left hands Thus children play by themselves at Cards thus the mad-man in Horace imagined himself at the Roman sports in vacuo sessor plausorque Theatro But for such as admire the man and buy his books for whose sakes the price is printed on the title-page or at the end at three farthings a sheet though that rate be not extraordinary for one or two books yet they had need of faire estates that are in a possbility of buying according to the Quotient in the Revelations Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of sheets God Almighty thought it sufficient to give us one booke if I may so call it and that such as to make the man of God perfect thoroughly furnished to all good works But Mr. Baxter affordes us more not furnishing men to all good works unlesse railing and uncharitableness doe that and of that value that one may cheaper buy the Bible that TRVE SAINTS

agitated whether the Sirname were FANE or VANE then we should not have been put to repetition for want of fresh wit but out of physick we might have heard of the Tela Gualiteri I am Scandit Gualter had not been lost nor would Mr. Br's persecuting spirit I am informed that he strook a Quaker openly have omitted the raillery of an Halter We should have heard of fictions too as now of Hiding and a Grammaticall dispute might have been moved whether the new Cavaliers should not be called the profane profani tanquam procul a fano as being opposites to the Fanes you will pardon me if I took notice of this Kedenminster wit it is remarkable in regard both of the Vanity and Sterility of the man that neither Malice which usually supplies naturall deficiencies in point of wit nor Melancholy which Aristotle observeth to dispose men to ingenuity should not furnish him with better Quibbles yet they are as good as what he objecteth in earnest against the aforesaid Patriot So certain it is that we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth He very often reflects upon him under the term of an Hider I do not apprehend his reason for it fince Sr. H. V. hath never declined to give forth an account of that hope that is in him He speaks plain and good English and if in his words the spirituality of the matter make all seeme to be hidden it is but the fate of the greatest soul-saving truths that they are hid to them that perish the Calumny of Mr. Br. is very old and made use of by the old Serpent in the Apostles time but they having renounced the hidden things of dishonesty gave this reason of their hidden words If our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this World hath blinded the minds of them that believe not least the light of the glorious gospell of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them 2. Cor. 4. v. 3.4 But what reason is there Sr. H. should suffer for Mr. Br's intellectualls thousands bear witnesse to the pretionsnesse of those truths they are his seale and experiment the comfort of what Mr. Baxter condemnes as vain and empty This will be of no strength till our great physician avow that we ought to resign up our senses to the delusions of Hypochondriaques and because the stupid do not we must not say we do feel What if Paul be reputed a babler by the Grecians as Sr. H. is by one that is no Grecian what if the doctrine of saving grace be a stumbling-block to the Jews and folly to the Greekes must the saints therefore quit their hopes of Salvation and that which is to them a Savour of life unto life We know what it is that the animall man entertaineth not because it is foolishness unto him neither can he because it is spiritually to be discerned But shall the man of God be concluded by those his sentiments that he should thereupon renounce him who is made unto us wisdome and sanctification shall the enlightned complain of Darkness because to others the light shineth in darknesse and the darkness comprehendeth it not If Sr. H. Vane had opened his mouth in parables how should he have been called an Hider And may not Mr. Br. be called an Hider that he obscures the light of the Gospell by intricate disputes is there any thing more hid then the Aphorismes which if no man should be justified but who understand them upon Mr. Brs. proposal the redeemed of the Lord will make up a lesse flock then is conceived Might not he also be called an Hider because under a pretended zeal he hides the malice of others in his slaunderous books He tells his Highnesse in the dedication that the Vani have been confounded by God by wonders in New England but have here prevailed farre in the dark As for their prevailing in the Dark I am not acquainted therewith I am sure Sr. H. never hid his candle under a bushell what he hath taught he hath done it openly before great Auditories and as great personages for spirituall discernings as this nation affordes He may almost reply in Christ's words I sat daily with you teaching in the Temple and ye laid no hold of me But suppose the Vani had encreased in the darke ought that to prejudice a good case Or is it not a reflection upon the iniquity of such Governours as forced truth into corners Truth and errour may encrease in the darke but the former brings a light to dispell darkness which the other augmenteth or doth onely vary As for the wonders wherewith God hath witnessed against them in New England I am a stranger to the transactions of that land yet I may very well suppose Mr. Br. hath not omitted any thing that might tend to their disrepute in that digression which he on purpose framed against them p. 330. The principall of these Hiders are the Vani whose game was first played openly in America in New England where God gave in his testimony against them from Heaven upon their two prophetesses Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. Dyer the latter brought forth a monster with the parts of a bird beast fish and man which you may see described in Mr. Welds's narrative with their discovery the concomitants and consequents The former brought forth many near 30 monstrous births at once and was after slain by the Indians This providence should at least have awakned England to such a Godly jealously as to have better tryed the doctrines which God thus seemed to cast out before they had so greedily entertained them as in part of Lincolne-shire Cambridg-shire and many other parts they have done At least it should have wakened the Parliament to a wise and godly jealously of the councels and designes of him that was in New England the master of the game and to have carefully searched how much of his doctrine and design were from Heaven how much of them he brought with him from Italy or at least was begotten by the progenitour of monsters Such extraordinary providences ought not to be despised I am not in a place where I can either informe my self of those accidents in New England and how farre what Mr. Br. saith out of Mr. Weld's is true nor can I meet with Mr. Weld's narrative that I might see whither Mr. Br. do more truly vouch him then the word of God or Greek writers I would therefore grant his Assertions did not that passage of Sr. H. Vane's bringing his doctrines with him out of Italy where he never was make me tender of crediting all Mr. Br. sayes I have since the writing hereof spoken with Mr. Clerke of New England who was there at the time of these monstrous births As for Mrs. ●yer he could not say any thing of his own knowledg but that she was privatly delivered two women onely being by of a falsebirth which was buryed