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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

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

no defence but an appeall to the searcher of hearts since words and actions are not sufficient fruits whereby to be known Might not I say that Mr. Br. is a close papist too and give you the like answer when you should alledge his frequent writings against them Nay could not I adde that many men may prevaricate as Mr. Baxter saith the Jefuites do amongst our forces and maintain what is not their judgment onely to create us new divisions and that the Romanists abound no where so much as near Mr. Br Might not I either fix any odious imputation upon Mr. Br. as Arminianisme Socinianisme upon another account then that his booke of infidelity is borrowed from Socinus yea Atheisme and say that he ownes all or any of these but closely If this procedure be once admitted of the whole world must become criminall and when surmises or bold assertions shall be taken for proofes none will be able to plead not-guilty There is not any thing more that I know of which Mr. Br. Mr Rogers in his Vindication of Sir H. V. gives this full account of his having no hand in the Kings death That upon that great change and alteration of affairs in the year 1648 he absented himself from the Parliament and Lievtenant General Cronwell who sat upon the Tryal of the King and encouraged the H●gh Court of Justice to sentence h●● could hardly and after much importunity prevail w●●h Sir H. V. to resume his place in Parliament and Council of State Now Mr Ba●●er the matter of f●ct being thus stated if you would have been impartial you should rather have said That your Lord Protector and his followers had a chief hand in the death of the King whether upon a publique or private account I leave it to the Lord then that Sir Henry Vane and the Vanis●● were the chief Actors in it But you were resolved to cast dirt in the face of this Gentleman and so to ingratiate your self with the New Court the glory whereof is now layd in the dust together with all your stattering Addresses hath objected to this Honorable personage or reproached him with for I do not esteem my self bound to take notice of that Satyr against those Patriots of the long Parliament and Army who executed justice upon the late King and erected a Common-wealth I have recommended that part of his book to the souldiery who if either their own repute or the cause of God and of the good people of this land in their religious civil concernes be dear unto them will not suffer the language of the Pedant to be unpunished If he had not been interested in making the Vanists odious how come they who were none at all to be more Regicides then the late Protector If Mr. Br. were so impartial as some would have him thought why did he spare his memory since many of those things which are charged upon the Vanists Anabaptists c. had their rise and management principally from him Some were onely his Acts. Did not he debauch the Army if to engage them to the true service of their countrey were to debauch them was not he an enemy to Ministry and Tithes did not he maintain and uphold a toleration why then was not he upbraided with close popery c. If Mr. Br. is resolved to meddle with no man but such whose names affoord him occasion for a Quibble he could not have missed of a Dozen in him besides that which is as obvious from the Greeke as is that on Sr. H. from the Latin Viz. that he endevoured to reduce us to our primitive slavery to the onyons and garlick of Egypt and that he would stink in the sense of all posterity these had genuinely issued from the name of Cromwell and the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying an onyon But I shall leave this discourse to entertain you more seriously with an enquiry into that invidious question which doth so much disquiet Mr. Br. and others amongst us Whither the civil Magistrate hath any thing to do in matters of spiritual concernment Upon that subject I intend to set down what my own thoughts are without interesting any therein but my self being no lesse resolved alone to receive all that the Obloqui and malice of others can throwe upon me then to continue all my life Ch. Ch. April 20. 1659. Sir your most affectionate humble servant H. S.

publick good to decry and subvert all self-interested designes to continue all power in the hand of the people have so little of particular advantages in them that it is not for corrupt policy to embrace that party Aristotle tells us that they who are ruled by the arbitrary commands of men and all governments are such where the Magistrate is no otherwise bound by law then that he is judge of his own deviations are governed by beasts but they who are governed by laws are ruled by God They are busy to change the Government are not the Baxterians so too Is there any for the present modell of affaires But Mr. Br. mistakes they would preserve the Government and the Monarchiall politicians would change it they would continue that liberty wherein the long Parliament enstated us and to perfect a fabrick is not to alter it it is one thing to be Protectour and another to be Soveraigne of a Common-wealth They would bring all things unto confusion because they would bring all things to a settlement and fix the mountain as farre as prudence permits beyond a possibility of removal they would secure the laws and immunities the the spirituall and civill enjoyments of the good people of this land and that undenyably yet with Mr. Br. these are but pretenses shadows not worth the striving for However all change is not to be condemned but such as is for the worst nor all confusion if the issue thereof be the publick safety Mr. Br. is a practitioner in physick poysons and wholesome medicines both alter the body both create a confusion in the humours yet doth the one destroy and the other Save But they would have the Major part to be Soveraign of the rest If so then not Soveraignes as he afterwards sayes you may see how much he hath thought on what he sayes who in so few lines cannot onely speak non-sense but contradict himself In a Democracy neither all nor the Major part of the people are Soveraignes but that Soveraignty which one Monarch possesses the people share by actuall exercise of their naturall right Nor is any member of a well-formed common-wealth cancluded by any majority to which he hath not previously consented or in the Election of which he hath not demeaned himself with as much prudence as they who plow and sowe not fearing a deluge or drought It is false that the most are still the worst and ignorantest Mr. Br. that is accounted probable which seems so to the most and Aristotle saith that the multitude 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 judgeth better then any one man whosoever The multitude too is not so bad as Mr. Br. thinks such vices as render men unfit for state employments are the debaucheries of a few and not of a multitude unlesse that multitude be under one I never yet read of a Monarchy which did not in it's own tendency corrupt the best men nor can I imagine a regulated Democracy upon a ballance ballot and rotation of Governours which will not amend the worst of men Wickedness and Ignorance universal are the consequences of Monarchy they who plead that all may be free and capable of bearing such offices as they can merit it is their interest as well as intent all should deserve These trifling arguments of Mr. Baxter will not perswade the state of Venice Holland Switzerland Geneva the Hanse-townes out of their liberty nor overthrow the reall happinesse Rome Athens Sparta Syracuse c. enjoyed under that form of Government I am sorry Mr. Br. did not live in the time of Caligula he who brought his horse into the Senate would have allowed Mr. Baxter a place in his Cabinet where he might have argued about the conveniency of a change of the principality of Rome into a Kingdom God Almighty established a Common-weal amongst the stiffe-necked Israelites Christ endowed his Church therewith yea the name thereof and others therein used are taken from this popular Government Was not Christ Jesus then faithfull to him that apointed him was not Moses faithfull in all his house Or are not these things written for our instruction who are so farre from being incapable of a Democracy that we are not capable of a Monarchy It is onely for the ignorant and unexperienced to commend a Linsey-woolsey mixt-Monarchy nor is it for a Christian here to practise an absolute one I would this puny statist had shewed his Highness how he must have debauched the Gentry out of their estates and advanced a Nobility to such riches and esteem as that their power might over-ballance the Commons without which there is no security or that he had divided the land unto Timariots and so erected a Monarchy upon a military interest or shewed a third way of settlement But I leave this cause to be managed by better pennes though I may remit Mr. Br. to the Lord Broghill who in his Parthenissa hath excellently debated the case of a Republick let them give or receive satisfaction one of another As for Mr. Harrington there is too much of learning and judgment in his works that I should referre Mr. Br. thereunto his modell is so farre above the praises as it agrees with the posture of our Nation Sr. I should entertain you with more raillery about Mr. Br's Catholicisme that is a Greeke word but not the onely one which he makes use of though he understand them not and with his designes for peace in which there is nothing almost good but the designes themselves But I shall no longer detain you from reading a vindication of the truly Honourable Sr. Henry Vane which was the principall motive next to the concerns of the publick that induced me to this writing You may from what I have already said frame a character of this Retailer of other mens reading and Quoter of quotatations Mr. Baxters his abilities and discretion the latter cannot be so little but the former is lesse and if you will any way uphold his credit it must be by such a distinction as whereby Strafford lost his Head though the parts of his accusation were not treasonable yet put together they did amount to Accumulative Treason so Mr. Br. may own an accumulative learning though he be deficient in all manner of knowledg Had this Honourable and pious Knight had any other name Mr. Br. had lost severall jeasts and clinches which I shall endeavour to preserve to posterity that they may know the man had some wit though no learning In the dedication to his Highnesse he calls such as adhere to Sr. H. Vane the Vani and p. 342. The Vane and Steril language of Paracelsian Behmenists and popish juglers doth serve me for no other use but to raise me into suspicion of their designes and doctrines and to signifie a Vaine and Steril minde I am heartily sorry out of compassion to the new edition of Archy the Court-fool his jeasts that for Sr. Henry his adversaries name was not Sr. Walter and a controversie was not

immediately and from these two women comes this Narrative for though it was digged up eight days after yet the shape was not determinable He was at Mrs. Hutchinson when she was delivered of what he had long foretol● would be a Mola it was a mishapen beast which being separated from its c●ates and integuments did put into four pieces two were like clotted blood in a tunicle and two like cluste●s of grapes bein● a congeries of litle round bladders full of water onely This he was an eye witness of and Mr. Cotton having related openly such stories as Mr. Br. doth did in the open Congregation at Boston retract them as I expect Mr. Br. should do no● or prove each vesicula of water to be a m●…ster The name of prophetesses is made use of by way of reproach I suppose God forgive him Luther was not against women's prophecying nor God who besides instances in the old under the new testament endowed Philip's daughters with prophecying and Peter saith Act. 2. v. 16.17.18 This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel And it shall come to passe in the last dayes saith God I will poure out of my spirit upon all flesh and your sonnes and your DAVGHTERS shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams and on my servants and on my HANDMAIDENS I will poure out in those days of my spirit and they shall prophesy But Mr. Br. liketh not this dispensation of the spirit the Holy Ghost though it be given to every one to profit with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yee women must be excepted untill Mr. Br. learn Greeke It is observable that Mr. Br. in the body of his booke speakes timorously as if his Objection from the providentiall actings of God were of no great moment These things should have awakened at least England to such a godly jealousie as to have better tryed the doctrines which God thus seemed to cast out before they so greedily entertained them I am confident S. H. V. never desired any man to embrace his doctrine without trying it the example of the Beraeans doth not offend him being assured of the truthes he layes down that they will abide in the day of the Lord he feares not man's day Yet he conceives that the precept to trye all things doth not exclude the holding fast or laying fast hold on that which is good To such enquiries he wishes all men were inclined and that not upon the motives Mr. Br. layes down but upon the accompt of souleconcernes As for Godly jealousy I understand not the term I see Mr. Br. is not alwayes Zaphnath Pahaneach as Pharaoh named Joseph Gen. 41. v. 45. or a discoverer of what is Hidden he is now got amongst the Hiders and indeed it is no commendation for him to Hide Malice Godly jealousie is of a destroying nature Phinehas the sonne of Eleazer when he slew Zimri and Cozbi is said to have had a Godly jealousie Num. 25. v. 11.13 Zeal and jealousie for God being all one both there and elsewhere How farre then this Godly jealousie should have extended Mr. Br. limits not nor yet that wise and godly jealousie in the Parliament which Sr. H. Vane is so farre from dreading that he would joyne I dare say with Mr. Br. in the advice he ownes no doctrine nor designes but such as Heaven inspires him with and which he will not be ashamed of on earth least Christ should be ashamed of him before his father If he had been in Italy he would have brought thence no other designes no other faith then what Paul planted there and of which he telleth the Romans that their faith was spoken of over the whole earth Yet is not Mr. Br. so moderate here as he might have been for if God did but Seeme to cast out the Vanists how comes he to say that God hath given in his testimony against them from Heaven upon their two prophetesses Who taught Mr. B. to make positive conclusions from seeming premises Thus he told the Protectour that God had confounded them by wonders All this is but a remote argument drawn from the providentiall actings of God in and upon two persons that witnessed some of those truths though with severall weaknesses unto which Sr. H. Vane hath given out a testimony amongst us There are some that cry up Mr. Br. for a rationall disputant unlesse he have given them other evidence then I see it must be for some hidden excellencies I know not how he came to be of God's counsell and to understand the intent of his various dispensations He was a wise man without disparagement to Mr. Br. be it spoken who said Eccles 9. v. 1. 2. 3. All this I considered in my heart even to declare all this that the righteous and the wise and their workes are in the hand of God no man knoweth except Mr. B. love or hatred by all that is before them All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked to the good and to the clean it is a very unsafe way then to argue from events to the justice of a cause or it's injustice for those things Mr. Br. urgeth though it be not necessary that Monsters should be ominous as Licetus and Riolanus observe they may as well unlesse Mr. Br. hide a part of his evidence have been warnings to the Colony or natives as Vanists When a Sheep of old yeaned a Lyon it was no ill-aboading presage to the sheep but to the Common-wealth that should fall under Tyranny God often times takes away the righteous but in mercy and out of judgment to the surviving wicked The Eclipse at Christ's death the disturbances and destruction ensuing in Judea were no declarations against Christianity no more then the sad ends to which many of the Apostles and other eminent Servants of God came James was slain by the sword Paul scourged and sh●p-wracked at Melite there a viper fastened on his hand and the people like Mr. Br. concluded No doubt this man is a murtherer whom though he hath escaped at sea yet vengeance suffereth not to live The Calamities that befell the Roman Empire upon the preaching of the Gospell if Mr. Brs. arguing hold good contrary to Tertullian were by them justly attributed to the Gods attesting against the Christians The new Starre the comet at the beginning of the reformation was differently expounded by the Papists and Protestants At Charenton not many years agoe there was a boate cast away on the Lords day full of French Gentry and others either coming from or going to Church which the Papists avowed for a judgment but Mounsieur Daille in a sermon about those on whom the tower Siloam fell refuted those conjectures As they upon whom the tower of Siloam did fall and they whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices were not greater sinners then others but suffer'd for example that all might repent so I hope