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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.
XVIII. When there appeared a probability of a Civil War, I read the Observator*, and some such others, that made the King to be singulis Major at Universis Minor; and I did not for some weeks at least discern the Error of that Assertion, as I shortly after did; and when I found Ri. Hooker lib. 1. going as far, and making Legislation to be the proper work of the whole Body, and Bishop Bilson telling us in how many cases the King might by Arms be resisted, and Grotius de Jure Belli, and W. Barkley enumerates many, and speaking yet higher, I was much the more quieted in receiving some such Principles. But consideration soon taught me to say that the people had the Meliority, but not the Majority; that is, They were to be preferred to the King in genere Causae finalis▪ but not in point of Governing Authority: And so I forsook Hooker's Politics▪ but not Bilson's, Jewel's, Grotius's &c. But I repent of that Error, though it was but short.
XVIII. VVhen there appeared a probability of a Civil VVar, I read the Observator*, and some such others, that made the King to be singulis Major at Universis Minor; and I did not for some weeks at least discern the Error of that Assertion, as I shortly after did; and when I found Ri. Hooker lib. 1. going as far, and making Legislation to be the proper work of the whole Body, and Bishop Bilson telling us in how many cases the King might by Arms be resisted, and Grotius de Jure Belli, and W. Barkley enumerates many, and speaking yet higher, I was much the more quieted in receiving some such Principles. But consideration soon taught me to say that the people had the Meliority, but not the Majority; that is, They were to be preferred to the King in genere Causae finalis▪ but not in point of Governing Authority: And so I forsook Hooker's Politicks▪ but not Bilson's, Jewel's, Grotius's &c. But I repent of that Error, though it was but short.
- *Said to be one Parker a Lawyer.