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Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called…
Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called The second part of the mischiefs of separation, written by an unnamed author with a preface to Mr. Cantianus D. Minimis, in answer to his letter which extorted this publication.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
II. If the most pleasing Sin be the greatest, the Delight in feigned Histories called Romances, was my great, because my most delightful Sin.
III. Though my Appetite inclined only to the coursest and poorest Diet, yet therein I pleased it foolishly and sinfully to the utter ruin of my Health: which I the rather mention to bid Parents look to their Children's Health in the quality and quantity of their Food, as they love their Life and Comforts. My delightful Diet was so much in Apples, and Pears, and Plumbs, and Cheese that possest my Stomach early with an uncurable excessive Flatulency, and my Veins with remediless Obstructions, and bred so long and violent a Cough, as that brought me into present danger of a Phthisis: To Cure which (after three Years) taking excessively Garlic and flos Sulphuris, inclined me to such a great long continued Bleeding, as exhausted my Natural Heat▪ and Strength.
III. Though my Appetite inclined only to the coursest and poorest Diet, yet therein I pleased it foolishly and sinfully to the utter ruine of my Health: which I the rather mention to bid Parents look to their Childrens Health in the quality and quantity of their Food, as they love their Life and Comforts. My delightful Diet was so much in Apples, and Pears, and Plumbs, and Cheese that possest my Stomach early with an uncurable excessive Flatulency, and my Veins with remediless Obstructions, and bred so long and violent a Cough, as that brought me into present danger of a Phthysis: To Cure which (after three Years) taking excessively Garlick and flos Sulphuris, inclined me to such a great long continued Bleeding, as exhausted my Natural Heat▪ and Strength.