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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49130	A review of Mr. Richard Baxter's life wherein many mistakes are rectified, some false relations detected, some omissions supplyed out of his other books, with remarks on several material passages / by Thomas Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1697 (1697)	Wing L2981; ESTC R32486	148,854	314

and Sir Henry Vane in the House of Commons As for the retracted Lines in his Holy Commonwealth it is evident that they also gave offence but that his judgment of them was altered appears not He seemed willing sometime that some of his Maxims in that Book should be taken as not written but finding that he hath in other Writings since that written much to the like purpose I think he continued to be of the same mind that Pilate was Quod scripsi scripsi Page 177. part 3. of Mr. Baxter's Life he says In June 1676. Mr. Jane the Bishop of London's Chaplain preached to the Lord Mayor and turned his Sermon against Calvin and me charging me that I had sent as bad men to Heaven as some that be in Hell because I had said in my Saints Rest of Brook Pym Hampden and White that I thought of Heaven with the more pleasure because I should meet them there This made me blot out those Names after 1659. not as changing my mind but not to give offence For which Reason he should have blotted out those hard Speeches and uncharitable Sentences which there follow These damning Prelatists are for our Silencing Imprisonment and Ruine and Factious Damners that for preferment condemn good men are ordinarily self-condemned Mr. Baxter's handling my Betters so rudely makes me less concerned at his railing on me And this may satisfie the Reader why I took the pains to Review Mr. Baxter's Life as written by himself to enquire what Discovery he had made of Falshoods retracted Lines or half Sentences of which I found not any Instance which made me to wonder because I found in the Appendix to his Life p. 108 109 110 111. a large and scandalous Letter directed to me and dated July 26. 1678. wherein he calls me to an account for three Particulars which I had mentioned in my Examination of Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism in which I represented Mr. Baxter as a Person of a peaceable Temper and made use of his Arguments to confute those of Mr. Hales which pleaded for Schism for which he ought as he seems to do in the beginning of his Letter to give me thanks yet he that reads that angry Letter may perceive that he sought occasions to quarrel and defame me when there was no Provocation given him But when he says I represented him as the worst Man on Earth and that by Falshoods c. he shuns the Occasion of justifying himself or proving any of his Accusations against me A PREFACE Concerning the Power of Prejudice IT is a Caution necessary to be observed by all Christians which St. Paul gives us 1 Cor. 3.21 Not to glory in Men i.e. not to prefer the Parts or professed Piety of some Men so as to contemn or despise the Ministry of others The reason of which he gives us vers 4. For while one says I am of Paul and another I am of Apollo are ye not i.e. ye are carnal This partiality begets Envying Strife and Divisions which are the works of the Flesh And this Prejudice causeth men to be puffed up one against another chap. 4.6 as the Corinthians were on behalf of false Teachers to an opposition of the Apostles themselves This St. Jude observes to have been the fault of the Gnostick Disciples who had the Persons of Seducers in admiration because of advantage viz. the liberty impunity and temporal accommodations which were permitted and promised by them And by such means St. Paul observes that his Galatians chap. 3.1 were so bewitched that they obeyed not the Truth And Tertullian deservedly chides the Christians in his Age And ex personis probamus sidem an ex fide personas De Praescript c. 3. It is a good Rule which Mr. B. says he had learnt but practised not to contradict Errours but not meddle with Persons Page 107. part 1. of his Life Do we approve of the Faith by the Persons of Men or of their Persons by the Faith The Faith once delivered to the Saints should always be the Rule by which we judge of the Ministry of Men. Though we or an Angel from Heaven preach any other Gospel unto you let him be accursed Gal. 1.8 There are many false Teachers that transform themselves into Angels of Light and mix some precious Truths with their damnable Errours But if they teach any thing for Doctrine contrary to the Word of God any Doctrine that tends to Impiety Disobedience or Divisions it is our duty to reject and withold Communion from them be their parts never so excellent and their pretences never so plausible lest it fares with us as with those silly Larks who being first taken with the glitterings of the Glass do play so long about it till they are also taken in the Net to their destruction For being once dogmatized and captivated by Men of ill Principles it will prove a matter of great difficulty to extricate our selves If we consider how rare a thing it is for Men of great Learning and perhaps of good Conscience too to deliver themselves from those Snares in which by Education and Custom by Prepossession and Carnal Prejudices they have been involved whereof St. Paul himself being bred up as a Pharisee may be an instance for whose Conversion no less than a Miracle was thought sufficient And no other account can be given why so many Learned Men in the Church of Rome do against Scripture Reason and Sense believe and defend such great Errours as they generally do but the tyranny of Prejudice and Education for quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu The ways which we are trained up in from our youth we will not depart from when we are old For as Justin Martyr observed Non Ratione componitur sed consuetudine Senec. Epist 123. Custom having once got the advantage of long continuance insinuates Errors and Impostures into the Minds of Men under the notion and representation of Truth and some Men have told lyes so long that at last they have believed them to be truths And Scripture it self doth intimate that it is morally as impossible for a Man to learn to do well that hath been accustomed to do evil as for an Ethiopian to change his skin or a Leopard his spots And Origen affirms that of all Customs those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 concerning Opinions and Matters of Doctrins are most prevalent for when other Advantages do conspire with our received Opinions facile credimus quod maxime volumus and our religious Opinions being rivited into our minds by the weighty Arguments of temporal and eternal Happiness it must be a power above that of Nature to vindicate us from the Captivity Hear Mr. Baxter on this Subject Take heed of suffering Fancy and Opinion to go for Reason and raise in your Minds unjustifiable Mistakes of any Way or Mode of Worship It is wonderful to see what Fancy and Prejudice can do Get once a hard Opinion of a