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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94087	A vindication of that prudent and honourable knight, Sir Henry Vane, from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Richard Baxter, minister of Kidderminster. In a monitory letter to the said Mr. Baxter. By a true friend and servant of the Commonwealth of England, &c.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing S6068; Thomason E985_21; ESTC R203679	15,324	23

A VINDICATION OF That Prudent and Honourable Knight Sir Henry Vane From the LYES and CALUMNIES OF Mr. Richard Baxter Minister of Kidderminster In a MONITORY LETTER to the said Mr. Baxter By a True Friend and Servant of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND c. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding but a man of a hasty spirit exalteth folly Prov. 14. 29. LONDON Printed for Livewel Chapman at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley 1659. A Vindication of that Prudent and Honourable Knight Sir HENRY VANE c. Mr. Baxter AS in the multitude of Words there wants not sin Sect. I Prov. 10 19. so in the multiplicity of Books and Writings there are commonly many gross mistakes calumnies unworthy and unchristian reflections upon the persons and actions of other men perhaps altogether unknown to the Authors of such books I cannot but admire the wise providence of God in suffering you to be whip'd and lashed not without just cause by divers godly learned men in their Writings by whom you are rendered to be one of an Heterodox Judgement levened with Popish Socinian and Arminian Errors of a bold inconsiderate and rash spirit transported with a preposterous Zeal and a busie intermedler with persons and things whereof you have but little judgement or experience So true are these words of Solomon In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride a wherewith they whip and wound themselves I say I cannot but admire the wise providence of God in this when I consider how apt you are to calumniate and de●ract from your Country-men who desire to serve the Lord in sincerity according to their light and knowledge and in their places and stations to promote the Good of all men I hope that worthy Knight Sir Henry Vane whom you have grosly bely'd in a book of yours lately printed * is of such a spirit and temper and would not willingly do wrong to you nor any other man of what Judgement soever Sect. II If you had expected the late Turn wherein much of the power and wisdom of God hath appeared our Enemies themselves being Judges and you your self have taken notice of the providence of God towards the late Protector and therefore m●y well take notice of this I doubt not Sir but you love and tender your self and your own credit and reputation so much that you would have been silent touching Sir Henry Vane and the Vanists as you most vainly and foolishly call them and not have rendered your self by your ●●shness and folly obnoxious to the Law and Justice VVas it not possible for you Mr. Baxter to flatter and fawn upon Mr. Richard Cromwel whom you in your wisdom have compared to wise Solomon as you did his Father to faithful and upright David but you must also asperse and bely your Country-men who would not nor could not sacrifice the Liberties of their dear Native Country to the ambi●ious lusts of men and bow down before that Court-Idol which was erected by a few factious self-interessed persons as you and others have done I dare not say with some of your friends that you have done this according to the true sense and meaning of the Solemn League and Covenant and other Oaths by you taken but rather according to your own foolish humors and those private factious and selfish ends which you and they proposed to your selves in the late Transactions as hoping to supplant all those that obstructed your ambi●ious designes As for that honourable Person whose prudence and parts in the management of State-affairs you are not able to judge of by your Pedantick Syllogisms though you think it worth your time to revile him I presume he looks upon it as below him and his great and weighty imployments to write any thing in his own Vindication he hath other business to look after and not to spend his time about the passionate and rash Scriblings of every byass●d and engaged person and therefore I think it not amisse having more leisure and opportunity not so much from any private or personall respect which I bear to him as my love to the Common wealth and Publick Interest of these Nations which is owned and asserted by him upon just and honest principles to clear up the Innocency of that worthy Knight and to vindic●te him though without his privity and knowledge from your lyes and aspersions that if it be the will of God you may learn Wisdome for time to come and make a publi●k Recanta●ion of that wrong and injury which you have d●ne him and be more advised and prudent in your words and writings Remembring what the Scripture saith Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles b Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words there is more hope of a fool then of him And if a man seem to be religious and b●idleth not his tongue this mans religion is in vain Doubtlesse great care and circumspection is to be used in writing Books for thereby the Authours expose themselves to the censures of all men whether they be wise or foolish rash or considerate learned or ignorant of sound or of corrupt judgment whether they be of a virtuous or vitious disposition He that commits any thing to writing saith Seneca gives men a bill of his manners which every Reader may put in suit against him if there be cause for it It is Kingly saith one * I may add that it is Christian-like Sect. III to do well and to be ill spoken of To do good to all men and to be ill spoken of by most men Who among the people of God was a greater lover of his Countrey a more valiant Captain or a more faithfull Governour then Moses yet how was he censured reviled and reproached by the people who continually murmured against him Among the heathens Socrates Photion Aristides Epaminondas and Cato were excellent men famous for their love to their Countrey yet how ungratefully and unworthily were they used And why should we think it strange that this honourable Knight with other worthy Patriots who have appeared against Tyranny both in matters Civil and Religious are reviled by you and your Associates who under pretence of Religion and the Interest of Christ would set up a faction and enslave the Nation It seems you have learned that Machiavilian lesson Calumniate lustily something will ever stick behind If he be a Slanderer who wrongs his neighbours credit either by unjust raising or upholding an evil report against him Surely you have cause to lay your hand upon your heart and to take shame to your self and if this be the mark of those that shall dwell in the Lords Tabernacle that they are such as neither raise not take up a reproach against their neighbour Psal. 15. 3. what will become of you Mr. Baxter and where and with whom must you dwell to eternity if God do not humble you for your slanderous and lying