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A64857 The life of the learned and reverend Dr. Peter Heylyn chaplain to Charles I, and Charles II, monarchs of Great Britain / written by George Vernon. Vernon, George, 1637-1720. 1682 (1682) Wing V248; ESTC R24653 102,135 320

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make disquieting impressions on them And there is no better way for us to prevent that dishonour than by looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith and by taking those who have spoken in his Name for an example of suffering Affliction and of Patience Iam. 5. 10. But although Dr. Heylyn spoke in Name of the Lord yet few will be prevailed with to take him for a pattern in suffering persecution who believe those black Characters that have been of late given him by some of the Writers of this pre●ent Age. And amongst the rest 't is matter of just wonder that Mr. Baxter who writes so frequently of Death and Iudgment and the account that must be given of all the hard speeches that are either spoke or writ against his Fellow-Christians should not be desirous to leave the troublesome stage of this world in a peaceable and calm temper and let those sleep quietly in their Graves whom he wish'd he had let alone when alive and unto whose learned labors he has not vouchsafed to return one word of Answer for above these two and twenty years And yet so it is that in his Preface to the Abridgment of Church-History he represents Dr. Heylyn to be a man of a malicious and bloody strain and one who spake of blood with pleasure thirsting after more c. I shall say little of that Book of Mr. Baxters understanding that it is taken into consideration by another hand But this I will not be afraid to affirm that if an impartial Pagan were to pass his judgment upon Christianity from those matters of Fact that are recorded in the Abridgment he would look upon it with a more uncharitable eye than Mr. Baxter does upon Dr. Heylyn and conclude it the most horrid Imposture in the world For what kind of Religion and Church was that which had little or nothing but Covetousness Ambition Oppression Simony Anarchy Tyranny Cruelty c. prevailing in it for so many centuries of years and no persons or conventions of men that had Wisdom and Power all that while to manage its affairs and concerns and to put it into any Apostolical or tolerable Order till an Army-Black-Coat who first almost dreined his Veins of their Blood against his Prince and then courted and caress'd a Tyrant and Vsurper and since that time has been employing his Spleen against the Church I say till such an one arose in the world and in affront to all the laws of Modesty and good Manners first prescribed a Platform of Civil Polity or Holy-Commonwealth to the State and then Rules of Government or Polity to the Church which should bind all Christians and be a Standard to all Superiors Let but any one seriously peruse the Abridgment and then judg whether Herod endeavoured with more malice to suppress the Genealogies of the Jewish Nation and especially those of the Royal Family that he himself might reign with more security than Mr. Baxter has done in throwing dirt upon Antiquity whereas a Divine of all men in the World ought to be very tender how he exposed the Nakedness of the Ancient Fathers lest he thereby exposed Christianity it self to scorn and contempt And we do not live in such an Age of piety and modesty but that some men would be very glad from the Abridgment if they had patience to read it to fix the like Infamy upon the Christian Faith as Cham did when he proclaimed the Nakedness of his Aged Father For my own part I never had the Hon●ur either to know Dr. Heylyn or to be known by him But those who were his Familiars represent him to be one of a tender compassionate Spirit and that few men put a more candid construction upon Persons and Actions than he did 'T is true he writ of a bloody Sect but with a purpose to prevent the shedding of more Blood He vindicated the Monarchy and Hierarchy from the Calumnies of that Faction that was and is the implacable and sworn enemy of both And for this the Ashes of his Grave must be disturbed by one who as Tullie speaks does not consider but cast Lots in writing Books and whose voluminous Treatises are no more to be compared with the Learned Writers of this Church than the stuff of Kiderminster is to be valued at the same rate with the best Arras Dr. Heylyn was no more a Man of Blood than St. Paul was a Mover of Sedition And if he had 't is to be hoped he might have been as well Canonized for fighting for his Prince as some others are celebrated for Saints in the Everlasting Rest who died in the very Act of Rebellion against him But 't is no new thing for those who cut a purse to cry stop the Thief Mr. Baxter may be pleased to call to mind what was done to one Major Jenning the last War in that Fight that was between Lynsel and Longford in the County of Salop where the Kings Party having unfortunately the worst of the day the poor Major was stript almost naked and left for dead in the Field But Mr. Baxter and one Lieutenant Hurdman taking their walk among the wounded and dead Bodies perceived some Life left in the Major and Hurdman run him through the Body in cold blood Mr. Baxter all the while looking on and taking off with his own hand the Kings Picture from about his Neck telling him as he was swimming in his gore That he was a Popish Rogue and that was his Crucifix Which Picture was kept by Mr. Baxter for many years till it was got from him but not without much difficulty by one Mr. Summerfield who then lived with Sir Thomas Rouse and generously restored it to the poor man now alive at Wick near Parshore in Worcestershire although at the Fight supposed to be dead being after the wounds given him dragg'd up and down the Field by the merciless Soldiers Mr. Baxter approving of the Inhumanity by feeding his eyes with so bloody and barbarous a spectacle I Thomas Iennings subscribe to the truth of this Narrative above mentioned and have hereunto put my Hand and Seal this second day of March 1681 2. Tho. Iennings Signed and Sealed March 2. 1681 2. in the Presence of John Clarke Minister of Wick Thomas Darke And now let it be left to the Readers Iudgment who is of a more malicious and bloody strain Dr. Heylyn or Mr. Baxter Whatever ill opinion the Doctor gained in the World was for the service which he did for his King his Country and the Church And it need not be told who says Nemo pluris ●estimat virtutem qu●m qui boni viri famam perdidit ne conscientiam perderet● i. e. He puts the best value upon virtue who to preserve the Integrity and Peace of his Conscience sacrifices the endearments of his Reputation ERRATA in the Preface PAge 3. line penult dele the P. 7. l. an●ep for tender r. tenderness In the Life Page 41. l. 23. r.