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A27006	Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708.	1696 (1696)	Wing B1370; ESTC R16109	1,288,485	824

Controversies against the Anabaptists first and then against the Separatists and in private some of my Worcestershire Neighbours and many of the Foot Soldiers were able to baffle both Separatists Anabaptists and Antinomians and so kept all the Garrison sound Whereupon the Anabaptists sent to Bedford for one Mr. Benjamin Cox an old Anabaptist Minister and no contemptible Schollar the Son of a Bishop and he and I had first a Dispute by Word of Mouth and after by Writing and his Surceasing gave me ease In conclusion a few poor Townsmen only were carried away about a Dozen Men and Women but the Souldiers and the rest of the City kept sound from all Infection of Sectaries and Dividers § 67. While I lived here in Peace and Liberty as Men in a dry House do hear the Storms abroad so did we daily hear the News of one Fights or other or one Garrison or other won or lost the two Newbery Fights Glocester Siege the marvellous Sieges of Plimouth Lime and Taunton Sir William Waller's Successes and Losses the Loss at Newark the Slaughter at Bolton the greatest Fight of all at York with abundance more So that hearing such sad News on one side or other was our daily Work insomuch that as duly as I awakened in the Morning I expected to hear one come and tell me Such a Garrison is won or lost or such a Defeat received or given And do you hear the News was commonly the first Word I heard So miserable were those bloody Days in which he was the most honourable that could kill most of his Enemies But among all these I was especially pleased with the Surprize of Shrewsbury both because it was done without loss of Blood and because my Father and many of my dear Friends were thereby redeemed for when I returned from Wem to Coventry it happily fell out that Sir Fulk Hunkes was made Governor of Shrewsbury by the King and he protected my Father while he was there But at last the Gent●y of the Countrey and he agreed not he being too much a Soldier and too civil for many of them and they procured him to be removed and Sir Rich. Oatley first and after Sir Mich. Earnley made Governors Sir Fulk Hunkes was confident when he went that their Drunkenness and Carelesness would shortly lose the Town and so it did indeed fall out His old Mother the Lady Hunkes he left with my Father where she died between 80 and 100 Years old But when he was gone my Father was made one of the Collectors of their Taxes for the King which he justly performed But he would not forcibly distrain of them that refused to pay as not knowing but they might hereafter recover it all of him for which he was laid in Prison by them that swore he should lie and rot there But he had been there but a few Weeks before the Keeper in the night came to him and beg'd his Favour to save him and his House for the Parliaments Souldiers had surprised the Town My Father would not believe it till he heard and saw that which compell'd his Belief and with what Joy I need not tell § 68. There were abundance of strange Providences in these times that fell out for some particular Persons The marvellous Preservation of Souldiers by Bibles in their Pockets which have received the Bullets and such like I will not mention When Prince Rupert put the Inhabitants of Bolton in Lancashire to the Sword Men Women and Children an Infant escaped alive and was found lying by her Father and Mother who were slain in the Streets an Old Woman took up the Child and carried it home and put it to her Breast for warmth having not had a Child her self of about 30 Years the Child drew Milk and so much that the Woman nursed it up with her Breast Milk a good while The Committee desired some Women to try her and they found it true and that she had a considerable proportion of Milk for the Child If any one doubt of this they may yet be resolved by Mrs. Hunt Wife to Mr. Rowland Hunt of Harrow on the Hill who living then in Manchester was one of them that by the Committee was desired to trie the Woman and who hath oft told it me and is a credible godly discreet Gentlewoman and Wife to a Man of most exemplary Holiness and of the primitive Sincerity without Self-seeking Hypocrisie and Guile The Maid her self thus nursed up lived after wards in London This putteth me in mind of that worthy Servant of Christ Dr. Teat who being put to fly suddenly with his Wife and Children from the Fury of the Irish Rebels in the Night without Provision wandred in the Snow out of all ways upon the Mountains till Mrs. Teat having no suck for the Child in her Arms and he being ready to die with Hunger she went to the Brow of a Rock to lay him down and leave him that she might not see him die and there in the Snow out of all ways where no Footsteps appeared she found a Suck-bottle full of new sweet Milk which preserved the Child's Life In Cornwall Sir Rich. Greenvile having taken many Souldiers of the Earl of Essex's Army sentenced about a dozen to be hanged when they had hanged two or three the Rope broke which should have hanged the next And they sent for new Ropes so oft to hang him and all of them still broke that they durst go no farther but saved all the rest Besides universal undeniable Report I had this oft told me by Mr. Woodhouse an honest godly sober Man a Sisters Son of Justice Kettleby of Shropshire who himself stood by expecting Death and was one of the Number of them whose Lives were saved by it If I would here give an account of all the Military Actions of those times which I had the certain knowledge of the manner of taking and losing Towns and Castles the Progress of the main Armies and of the Parties in the several Counties in Cheshire Lancashire Yorkshire Derbyshire Staffordshire Shropshire Lincolnshire Gloucestershire and other Counties where particular Wars were carried on and between Pembrokeshire and the rest of Wales and also the manner of the several great Fights especially that at Marston-moor near York it would fill of it self a greater Volume than I intend and is a matter besides my present purpose and fit to be done in another manner And therefore I shall pass that by and proceed in the Narrative of the passages of my own Life in●erposing only Generals and the passages which occasioned them § 69. When by the great Mercy of God I had lived two years in quietness at Coventry the Earl of Essex being weakened by a great loss in Cornwall fell under the great displeasure of some of the Parliament not as to his Person but as to the Conduct of Affairs who prevailed to have him laid by The Causes were all these in Conjunction 1. Though none could deny

supposing such Excellent persons to be Saved But Errours and Sins contradict themselves and Factious Damners that for Preferment Condemn good Men are ordinarily self-condemned § 3. This maketh me remember how this last year one Dr. Mason a great Preacher against Puritanes Preached against me publickly in London saying That when a Justice was sending me to prison and offered me to stay till Monday if I would promise not to Preach on Sunday I answered I shall not Equivocally meaning I shall not promise when he thought I meant I shall not Preach O these say the Malignants are your holy Men And was such a putid Falshood fit for a Pulpit from such Men that never spake one word to my face in their Lives The whole truth is this The foresaid Tho. Ross with Philips being appointed to send me to prison for Preaching at Bra●nford shut the Chamber doors and would neither shew or tell me who was my Accuser or Witness nor let any one living be present but themselves And it being Saturday I askt them to stay at home to set my House in order till Monday Ross asked me Whether I would promise not to Preach on Sunday I answered No I shall not The Man not understanding me said We●t you Promise not to Preach I replyed No Sir I tell you I will not promise any such thing If you hinder me I cannot help it but I will not otherwise forbear Never did I think of Equivocation This was my present Answer and I went strait to Prison upon it Yet did this Ross vent this false Story behind my back and among Courtiers and Prelatists it past for currant and was worthy Dr. Mason's Pulpit-impudency Such were the Men that we were persecuted by and had to do with Dr. Mason died quickly after § 4. Being denied forcibly the use of the Chappel which I had built I was forced to let it stand empty and pay Thirty pounds per Annum for the Ground-Rent my self and glad to Preach for nothing near it at a Chappel built by another formerly in Swallow-street because it was among the same poor people that had no Preaching the parish having 60000 Souls in it more than the Church can hold when I had Preached there a while the foresaid Justice Parry one of them that was accused for slitting Sir Iohn Coventree's Nose with one Sab●es signed a Warrant to apprehend me and on Nov. 9. 1676. six Constables fo●● Beadles and many Messengers were set at the Chappel-doors to 〈◊〉 it I forbare that day and after told the Duke of Lauderdaile of it and asked him What it was that occasioned their wrath against me He desire● me to go and speak with the Bishop of London Compton I did and he spake very fairly and with peaceable words But presently he having spoken also with some others it was contrived that a noise was raised as against the Bishop at the Court that he was Treating of a Peace with the Presbyterians But after a while I went to him again and told him it was supposed That Justice Parry was either set on work by him or at least a word from him would take him off I desired him therefore to speak to him or provide that the Constables might be removed from my Chappel-doors and their Warrant called in And I offered him to resign my Chappel in Oxenden-street to a Conformist so be it he would procure my continued Liberty in Swallow-street for the sake of the p●or multitude that had no Church to go to He did as good as promise me telling me That he did not doubt to do it and so I departed expecting Quietness the next Lord's day But instead of that the Constables Warrant was continued though some of them begg'd to be excused and against their wills they continued guarding the Door for above Four and twenty Lord's-days after And I came near the Bishop no more when I had so tried what their Kindnesses and Promises signifie § 5. It pleased God to take away by torment of the Stone that excellent faithful Minister Mr. Tho. Wadsworth in Southwark and just when I was thus kept out at Swallow-Street his Flock invited me to Southwark where though I refused to be their Pastor I Preached many Months in peace there being no Justice willing to disturb us This was in 1677. § 6. When Dr. Lamplugh now Bishop of Exeter was Pastor at St. 〈◊〉 old Mr. Sangar the Minister thence put out thought it his duty to abide in the Parish with those of his ancient flock that desired him and to visit such as desired him in sickness because many that were against our Preaching pretended that we might find work enough in private Visitings and helps An old Friend of Mr. Sangar's being sick near St. Iames's Market-house sent to him to visit her By that time he had a while Prayed by her Dr. Lampleugh came in and when he had done came fiercely to him saying Sir What business have you here Mr. Sangar answered To visit and Pray with my sick Friend that sent for me The Doctor fiercely laid hold of his breast and thrust him toward the Door saying Get you out of the Room Sir to the great trouble of the Woman that lay sick in Bed by them having buried her Husband but a little before Had this been done to any other than to so Ancient Grave Reverend Peaceable Moderate and Calm a Man as Mr. Sangar who had been lawfully called before this Doctor to be Pastor of the Parish and then Preached no where but to a few in his own small House it had been more excusable Mr. Sangar oft profest to me the truth of what I say which I mention to silence those our Accusers that would have us give over Preaching that we may do such private Work Wheras 1. I must be a year speaking that to people one by one which publickly I may tell them all in one day And he that heareth my Exhortation but once a year and heareth Seducers Swearers Cursers and Railers every day may wish at last he had better friends than these pretenders to Peace and Obedience that accuse us 2. And such Instances shew that we are envyed as much in our private duty as in our publick And did we speak only in private our Persecutors would then vent their Suspicions of our Doctrin without any Confutation and would say We are they that creep into Houses to lead the silly Women captive O what a World is this Where Atheists Infidels and the most Beastly Sinners are Members of the Church of England When did we hear of any of them Excomunicate and God's faithfullest Servants represented even by the envious Prelates and publick-Priests as the intolerable Criminal persons of the Land for Praying and Preaching when they forbid them and the necessity of Thousands binds them to it besides their Ordination Vow § 7. When Dr. William Lloyd became Pastor of St. Martin's in the Fields upon Lamplugh's Preferment I was encouraged by