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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.
VI. Though I was bred under many mere Readers, and Tippling or Drunken Schoolmasters and Curates, and scarcely heard a Sermon in a long time, till I was about Fourteen years of Age, or then and after none that I felt any profit by, I was not troubled at the loss, nor at my ignorance and unprofitableness.
VI. Though I was bred under many meer Readers, and Tipling or Drunken Schoolmasters and Curates, and scarcely heard a Sermon in a long time, till I was about Fourteen years of Age, or then and after none that I felt any profit by, I was not troubled at the loss, nor at my ignorance and unprofitableness.
VII When it pleased God by reading some good Books, and by my danger of Sickness, about Fifteen years of Age to waken my Conscience, I was not so obedient to that awakening Call as I should have been: But was oft tempted to my old sin of pleasing my Appetite, and had almost been drawn away to a covetous love of Gaming at Cards: But God quickly checked it by an unusual Providence.
VII When it pleased God by reading some good Books, and by my danger of Sickness, about Fifteen years of Age to waken my Conscience, I was not so obedient to that awakening Call as I should have been: But was oft tempted to my old sin of pleasing my Appetite, and had almost been drawn away to a covetous love of Gaming at Cards: But God quickly check'd it by an unusual Providence.
VIII. I was strongly possest (I think by Pride joined with a Love of Learning) to have settled at the University till I had attained some Eminency of Learning and Titles; but God in great Mercy by Sickness and other hinderances saved me from that danger, and loss of time, and bred me up in a more humbling way, and gave me some little help of safe and pious Country Tutors.