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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29066	A defence of The antidote against Mr. Baxter's palliated cure of church divisions wherein Mr. Baxter's contradictions and inconsistences ... are clearly discovered, and the great question about conformity briefly stated in a letter to Mr. Richard Baxter / by Edward Bagshaw.	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing B407; ESTC R35299	23,696	31

expose you union the scorn of your enemies and to the pity of your friends but I cannot help it you have confidently made the challenge and will not be beholding to an act of Indemnity but stand upon your Innocence and therefore you must endure what follows I must confess your bold and resolute disclaiming any Activeness in that warr did so much stagger me that I began to question the truth of all the Reports that I had heard but your own books which I have since read do so fully prove my charge that nothing but your hopes that all is forgotten as well as pardoned which is past could ever embolden you to so peremptory denyal What Sir were not you as Active in that War as any whcn in your Holy Common-wealth you tell us That when you engaged in the Parliaments war against the King You thought it the greatest outward service that ever you performed to God And That you encouraged many thousands to it And that Though many things fell out otherwise then you expected yet you were so far from repenting of what you had done that did the same circumstances occurre you would do it again or else you should be guilty of Treason or Disloyalty against the Soveraign power of the Land and of persidiousness to the Common-wealth c. Can you read Sir these passages and still deny that with your utmost industry you did promote the War or can you think you dealt uprightly in blaming those who did much less then you though they have since suffered more and because you declaim so much against the changes which followed upon the War and ask me who had nothing at all to do with it many malicious and ensnaring questions about them This I must tell you doth as little become you as the other for how can you with any appearance of integrity reproach others for Changing the Government when in your writings you do highly approve of that which was the worst part of the Change the setting up of Cromwell to be Protector what is this else but to cry out loudly against the Treason and yet to hugg and to embrace the Traytour For you greatly commend that absurd tool The Humble Petition and Advice which was Cromwells instrument of Government And you say of it A more excellent Law hath not been made for the happiness of England concerning Parliaments at least since the Reformation And of Cromwell himself though he dyed in his sinful usurpation without manifesting any Repentance you give this Saint-like Character in your Preface to the Army The late Protector did prudently Piously faithfully to his immortall honour how ill soever you used him exercise the Government Sir could you say all this of him then and doe you think your most partial friends can justifie you now when you compare him to the Tyrant Maximus and make him in effect to be nothing else but a Murderous and a Bloody Vsurper which although it may in the mouth of another who never flattered him be perhaps received as his True Character yet it became not you who had so officiously before brought your Odours to embalm his memory thus to bespatter and disgrace him As for your Flattery to his Son which I also charged you with and you with a strange but not to your self unusual boldness do deny what can be more apparent In your Disputations about Church Government You thus address your self to him I observe that the Nation generally rejoyceth in your peaceable entrance upon the Government and many are perswaded you have been kept from blood in our late warrs that God might make you a healer of our breaeches and employ you in the Temple-work which David himself though he earnestly desired it might not be honoured with And then you advise him to cherish Vnion among his own Pastors for This say you would be the way to lift him up highest in the esteem and love of all his people and make them see that he was appointed of God to be a Healer and a Restorer and to glory in him and to bless God for him as the instrument of our chiefest peace you also tell him in the Dedication of your Key to Catholicks that you are one who bless God for him and who rejoyce in the present happiness of England and concurre with the common hopes of yet greater Blessings under his Government which there you pray for and so subscribe your self his Faithful Subject Now Sir If you please find out a Middle-word between Falshood and Flattery and think to excuse your self by that while I take leave to say that such kind of Language to one who in no sense could be accounted a lawfull Governour doth too rankly savour of both Go if you please and boast your self of your present Loyalty and seem to take it ill as you pretend to do if any think otherwise of you but still remember that even you who now in that respect so much boast and exalt your self above your Brethren telling them that God in justice hath put them down did also say when you thought you might do it safely That you were satisfied in two things First That i God in Justice had put down the former Governours meaning the King and his Party for their Persecution and scorning of Piety Secondly That you thought your self bound to submit unto the present Government which was then in the hands of Rich. Cromwell as set over us by God and that you would obey for conscience sake and behave your self as a Loyal Subject towards them Sir you that professed your self to be so Loyal then cannot in reason be supposed to be conscienciously Loyal now and the least you can expect is neither to be believed nor trusted I have done Sir with my Defence of this Exception and now if you please charge me with Vntruth for affirming You were as active as any in the late War and deny if you can the consequence I gathered from thence that It became not you to blame the effects who gave such Rise and Encouragement to the Cause I mean unless you repent of the Cause which it is evident you have not yet done and if I may not be believed in this Opinion of you I doubt not but the Bishop of Worcester will who for this very thing did formerly accuse you of Rebellion From which charge he that defended you then leaves you to acquit your self now as well as you can And now Sir for a close of this I should ask your pardon for thus venturing to break the Act of Oblivion but your Importunity did force me to it and I could not otherwise clear my self from your slanderous Imputation of Falshood but by bringing Truth to light and by stripping you of your Disguise under which for so many years you have been masked and covered leave you naked and defenceless to the judgement and censure of every Impartial and Unprejudiced Reader and if any thing is