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    tions , syaods , and other correspondencie ; 3 ? , the order ' and peace of ' all by a fixed Pfesidencie , or such a true Episcopacie as was agreeable to y

    Scripture and primitive practice ; 4 ° , the magistrate's g-overnm * of all by y « sword ; 5 ° , y measures of tolleration of tollerable Z ) issenter& , and keeping love and peace with all , were left to farther consideration . The B said ,

    y t these terms were such as moderate men should and would accent , but there were others y would * not . And y his proposed Reduction would not be accepted at th ^ first , but after , they would have accepted it . Mr . B . asked his solution of y e doubt about ye

    validity of Presbyters * ordination . He shortly answered , y * and Presbyters are efusdem ordinis et ad ordinem pertinei erdinare ; and y y King " had asked him where he found , in all antiquity , y * Presbyters ordayned Presbyters ; and y he answered , I can

    shew yonr Majesty more , even where they made Bps , citing Hierom ' s words to Evagrms , of the Alexandrians ( besides that Presbyters joyned w Bps in ordination ) . And , indeed , y making of ministers is a kind of politicall generation , y elder as ffathers making

    junior ministers as their sons ; as physicians make physicians ; and lawyers make lawyers ; in imitation of nature ' s propagating of y species : there needs not an aiigell to beget a man , nor a man to beget a horse , &c . But placing them in their severall churches requireth soinew * more .

    This short accord of y Bp and Mr . Baxter is mentioned as occasioning ^ v * followeth . When the Parliam * was called by G Monke , &c , in 1660 , they began w 11 * a fast , appointing Dr . Gauden , Mr . Calamy and Mr . Baxter to preach before them . They differed not in matter of loyalty ; but Dr .

    Gauden preaching on [ give to Ccesar y things yl are C < # sar s and to God y thing's y are God ' s ] , pressed y to begin with giving y <* King his due , and to settle religion after , leat y pretences of religion should delay y * King ' s restoration . Mr . Baxter was accidentally stept out of the church

    when those words were spoken ; and in his sermon told them , y t they should begin w giving' to God ye things y t are God ' s , and postponing religion had frustrated others * hopes , and would let slip the opportunity , and lose all by delay , and provoke

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    fJod by neglect , ( W . Jr aease , } f < et not delayingany di % tfr Caesar , mri p « tting it in its p toper place , he being under God . Dr . Gauden thought this had bin preached in opposition to Mm , and printed a preface to his sermon to defend w he had said . Mr . Baxter

    told y how necessary it was to unite y ministers , and end our church discords and divisions * and y it was so practicable a thing if men were wise , moderate and willing , y fy * late A *> p Ushdr and fie had in an noure ' s time

    agreed on y necessary termes \ These words being printed in the sermon , occasioned many peaceable Episcopal ) Divines , to come to Mr . B . to know w * those termes were y Bp Usher an < J he agreed on , viz . Dr . Gauden , Dr . Gouldson , Di \ Allen , Dr . Bernard ,.

    &cv When he had intimated to y * y ^ same , they appoynted some meetings to consider of the particulars , and professed great desires of concord , and willingnes of such moderation and atbatemfc * iis were necessary thereto . But some men of greater power stept in and frustrated all . Mr . Calamy

    thought y y best way to bringe it to successe was to engage y King in it , and procure his consent and helpe . Mr . B . telling all this y * past between Bp Usher and him to y «* Lord Broghill and y « Earle of Manchester , they

    resolved to motion it to y « King , who readily embraced y motion , and heard Dr . Reyiioldfr , Mr . Catlamy , KFr . Ash , and Mr . Baxter , first making y proposall te him ; and allowed y * to call to their ayde whom els they would , and offer their termes of concord t 6

    y King by y Lord Chancellor . Mr . Calamy , guiding much y personall matters , invited all y ministers of London , y ^ would , to meet y * at Sion Colledge to agffee on y termes of eoncord to be offered . As to Church

    Goviernmt , it was * agreed by all y * mett , to offer nothing \ but ^ P Ush er ' s owne Reduction as it was in print , lest any alteration of their owne shoujd become matter of alteration , and fee

    a pretense for ye clergie ' s refusals And it was offered y Kiug accordingly , w other praposalls about y other diffeTettces . But y BPfe a « d Lord Chancellor would not so mudi

    as allow it to be once taken into consideration and-debate , but utterly laide it aside . Yet in the Kiitg ' s following declaration of Ecclesiastical ! affaires , w ' setled y <> English prel-acie in tlieir

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    S 88 Original Letters and Papers / tow Richard B&arttf * * M&S .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/32/