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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

MALICE REBVKED OR A CHARACTER OF Mr. Richard Baxters ABILITIES AND A VINDICATION OE 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. Prov. 12.19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever but a lying tongue is but for a moment LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLIX READER I Know many persons will be apt to censure this ensuing piece as being too virulent considering the disparity of years repute and that calling in which Mr. Baxter lives I professe I have no personall quarrell with the man nor have I read more of his workes then I was necessitated unto for the penning of this letter he should still have enjoyed his ill-founded esteem if it had not been abused to the prejudicy of the Good old cause and the Common-wealths-men I have followed an example of his own giving and it were not fitting that Court-parasites should be wore forward and servent to enslave us then we to defend our Liberty As I voluntarily engaged in a vindication of the Honourable Sr. Henry Vane so besides the resentments of Gratitude which I have for his many favours I brought with me those of a more generall concerne and I make it my most humble request to that Honourable personage if I have fallen into any mis-becoming transports in a discourse wherein his name was mentioned that he would not interpret my zeal and ardour for the publique as a diminishing of that respect which is due to him from me and all the VVorld Sir I Could wish the subject of this letter could yeeld you more divertisement then the present posture of our Affaires will permit and that I might entertain you with a pleasing as well as necessary discourse The Age wherein we live hath been all Miracles and the coming forth of the Woman out of the Wilderness hath been attended with so many wonders that a pious heart can never want Employment in its contemplations We have seen and our eyes bear witness to the Actings of our God the overturning of a Monarchy setled upon the foundation and usage of many hundreds of years strenthened by what humane policy could contribute to it's establishments and what of buttresse a complying Clergy could assist it with out of the Pulpit yet have we seen a change so brought about by our Jehovah that he may in extraordinary acknowledgements be proclaimed Wonderfull Counsellour the mighty God the Everlasting Father Prince of peace We have seen the most glorious cause in the World accompanied with no lesse successe and the Lord in his mercy to us and justice to them Hath bound our King in chaines and Nobles in fetters of iron such as wherewith they had formerly oppressed the good people of this land This honour have all his Saints Ps 149. v. 9. Vengeance hath he returned upon their heads and their own shame hath covered them The true anointed ones of the Lord have appeared for their sakes hath he rebuked Monarchs and the former have reaped the fruits of that Holiness and Sacriety whereunto the latter vainly pretended But Sr. to our no small discouragement after such expence of blood and treasure after such high disputes and contests in the field after so many prayers and teares shed and that we were in hopes to see our selves in a literall sense no longer aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel but enjoying those Liberties Spirituall and Civill into which the Lord had enfranchised us that God who had secured us from the malice of our foes and broken their violence hath occasioned our stumbling by counterfeit friends and false-hearted brethren have almost reduced us into Egypt to the house of bondage after all our endeavours for such immunities as when we thought our selves possessed of them we did not sufficiently improve These things to a Cato to a spirit acted onely by Gallentry would be insupportable and a Soul agitated onely with the concerns of the Natural man in his grandeur would not out live But we have not so learned Christ we know it is God's usuall way to endear his favours to his children by heightning their Expectation and profering onely at first that wherein he will afterwards enstate them When Israel began to think Canaan-wards Pharaoh's taskmasters said the people were idle and thereupon they encreased their oppressions when the generous English put on thoughts of Liberty and claimed their priviledges in Spirituall and Civill interests it was objected that riches and ease had made them rebellious our Parliaments became discontinued the Court employed their utmost Artifices to reintroduce a Vassallage but after that providence had disengaged us from those incumbrances and that we were upon our way to Freedom by the help and conduct not of one Moses but many illustrious personages whose Memory shall live when that of Thrasybulus Timoleon Epaminondas Brutus Valerius or any worthies Greece or old Rome could ever boast of shall cease to be mentioned When we were upon the way to freedom and happiness when we were within sight of the Cape of good hope after a perillous voyage thorough an Ocean of blood then it befell us as it did the Israelites after they had cast off Pharaoh's yoake and passed the red sea under the protect on of God visibly appearing in their behalf the Spies brought an ill report upon the land Corah Dathan and Abiram mutined men questionlesse of extraordinary Endowments and pretenders to sanctity these created divisions Aaron together with Miriam murmured and such confusion upon sundry occasions arose that what might have proved a journey of a few days was protracted 40 Years and those men who had been instrumentall in bringing the people out of Egypt and felt the comfort of the visible presence of God and had eaten Monnah all these lost their workes if not themselves and after much wandring and travaile two onely of them though their children lived to enjoy what their Fathers had the promise of entred into Canaan Sr. Our case hath been parallell to those accidents and we may therein read the grounds of our Confidence that thorough a resemblance of events the same providence operateth now in us which did of old and we expect the same issue though I hope so farre bettered that a greater number shall enjoy the benefit of their first intendments then did formerly in the wilderness Truly I am nothing discouraged at those emergencies those disorders and that losse which we are at I assure my self these are but the pangs of that birth in which we shall at last with joy cry out A man-child is born and not the paines attending a false conception a dead of-spring or such as whereto there wants strength to bring forth God will not loose his own mercies and all is but as the wandrig Jews in the desert or as the going back of the sun upon the dyall of