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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

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

Mr. Br. will acquit O. P from an ominous dissolution that day being famous for the vanquishing of one and death of another usurper But might not one say that the prodigious birth of Mrs. Dier's was a witnesse against the polity of those days in it's several corruptions men desiring then Vnity though of persons as Heterogeneous as was her monster Or might it not be an Emblem of the various temptations thorough the influence whereof they who either reject or hold the truth in unrighteousness are instigated and such are the spoiles of birds beasts and fishes wherewith man either prideth or pampereth himself It is an adulterous generation that asketh a signe and it is none of the wisest that judgeth thereby Her death is to be laid at the doores of th●m that persecute her so as that to avoid the terrours th●y affrighted her with flee fled and was slain by the Indians as they set upon the Dutch planters As for Mrs. Hutchinson's being slain by the Indians Mr. Br. ought to know that there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in Wickedness Eccles 7.15 There be just men to whom it happeneth according to the worke of the wicked again there be wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the worke of the righteous And if Solomon say that this is vanity Eccles 8. v. 14. I may say so of Mr. Brs. arguing I am sure I could enter upon a discourse about the cause of Monsters but that what I have said is enough to chastise Mr. Br. for his peremptory censure which though twice repeated hath little of the two-edged sword but much of an edged picture which according to the different Station of the beholder entertaines him with a different representation If one should argue against Mr. Brs. opinions that an evill disease cleaveth unto the Authour that God hath declared against his tenets by the sad afflictions which he hath layed upno him that he hath visited him in wrath and chastised him in his sore displeasure that by Hypochondriacall distempers he hath witnessed against the flatulency of his brain that by the maladies of his spleen and rivers of blood issuing from his nose he doth wonderously confound his malice and sanguinary principles Satia te sanguine quem sitivistr that those profusions from the neighbouring parts warne him to employ his eyes in lamenting the troubles to which he contributes in this Nation in fine that the Atrophy of his body is a manifestation of the Sterility of his principles These discourses have a shew of as much reason as Mr. Baxter's and not lesse ingenuity But Sr. Henry Vane is sundry times by him called close-papist and such are desired that they may be kept out of Parliaments Armies Councills c. There is none that know the frame of Sr. Henry Vane's spirit but can bear me witnesse that if the cause of God and the good of his people amongst us did not prevaile mightily upon him and the apprehensions thereof as it were eat Him up he had rather enjoy a retirednesse under the immediate teachings of God's spirit then be taken up with distracting employments in Parliaments and Councills This would be to him an infinite satisfaction and to be valued above all those preferments and dignities which he as much deserves as others can ambition them to spend his time in soule-converses with his beloved and those delights which attend the highest spirituall entertainments that so much Meekness Humility and unfeigned piety is capable of As for his being a close-papist it is a calumny that nothing but a tongue set on fire by Hell and not touched with a coale from the Altar could utter which the most bare-faced enemies of the publick good and tranquility of the Nation the most ambitious and self-seeking men with whose interest Sr. H. Vane's uprightness doth enterfere never yet charged him with But Mr. Richard Baxter may say any thing either as transported with Zeal though not according to knowledg or bribed or enveigled into such language There is not a man in this Nation who hath more layed his Ax to the roote of Popery then Sr. Henry Vane no man hath so thoroughly endeavour'd to extinguish that Mystery of iniquity in which Mr. Baxter moderate and healing Mr. Baxter saith he walkes How farre Mr. Br. hath been wronged in the charges of Arminianism Socinianisme Pelagianisme and Blasphemy I shall not now discusse certain I am that they who charged him therewith had colourable pretenses for those imputations and the very sense hereof might have made him lesse precipitate to asperse others but his earnestnesse for Bethel made him not apprehend thoughts of Sion The Authour to the Hebrews c. 2. v. 17. saith in all things it behooved Christ to be made like unto his bretheren that he might be a mercifull and faithfull high-priest for in that he himself hath suffer'd being tempted he is able to succour them that be tempted But though Mr. Br. hath had his share in tongue-sufferings and those of the worst quality yet hath not that disposed him to a tenderness towards others and that which was so effectuall in Christ hath lost it's prevalency upon this pseudo-minister If to destroy all Spirituall power that usurpeth upon the rule and kingdom of our Lord Jesus all soule-oppression and conscience-distressing persecution be to be an Abettour of Rome it 's power and inquisition If to cry grace grace to the building and builders of Sion be to comply with Babylon and make one a partisan of Antichrist Farewell all the declarations of afflicted innocency and let not Christ nor Mr. Baxter call for a confession or profession of faith which though never so positive evident and clear cannot defend a man from the imputation of CLOSE PAPIST Are those doctrines fetched from Bellarmine Persons and Gretser which are as opposite to them as to Mr. Baxter's designes Did Sr. H. V. devest the civill Magistrate of spirituall power to invest the Pope therewith Mr. Brs. words had not been groundlesse as now they are since he no more advantageth the Pope by such his opinions then the Presbyterians out of which number I do not yet here of any that think Sr. H. V. doth agitate closely their cause and is underhand an abettour of Presbytery To deny the Civill Magistrate power of entermedling in religion for this he needed not have gone to Italy nor consult Bellarmine Parsons or Gretser names made use of meerly to draw an odium upon him The Scotch and Dutch Presbyters in the Erastian and Vedelian controversies would have furnish'd Him with arguments as Mr. Br. may have furnished himself from their Antagonists or from Goldastus's collection of Popish writers that defended the Emperour's authority against the Popes You will perhaps reply that what I have said may acquit Sr. H. V. from being an open papist but not from being one in secret Oh! accursed malice against which there is