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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.
17. But it followeth not that therefore a Papist may be resisted in France, Spain, Portugal, or any Papist Kingdom; nor yet a Heathen by persecuted Christians, as in the Roman Empire. Because their Religion bindeth none of these to exterminate or destroy their own Kingdoms, as being of the same Religion as themselves. And the Christians then, and Protestants there now are not the Kingdom, but a Party: Therefore King and Parliament have here newly enacted for the settling of this Crown, that no Papist may be here King or Regent Queen: For though (as in the Pond Judge Hale tells us) two Pikes devoured all the other great store of Fish, and survived only themselves) God never authorized one Man to damn or murder a whole Kingdom.
17. But it followeth not that therefore a Papist may be resisted in France, Spain, Portugal, or any Papist Kingdom; nor yet a Heathen by persecuted Christians, as in the Roman Empire. Because their Religion bindeth none of these to exterminate or destroy their own Kingdoms, as being of the same Religion as themselves. And the Christians then, and Protestants there now are not the Kingdom, but a Party: Therefore King and Parliament have here newly enacted for the setling of this Crown, that no Papist may be here King or Regent Queen: For though (as in the Pond Judge Hale tells us) two Pikes devoured all the other great store of Fish, and survived only themselves) God never authorized one Man to damn or murder a whole Kingdom.
18. The Interest of the King (his Honour, Safety and Power) and the Interest of the People (their common safety and welfare) are distinct, but must not be opposite. The King is for the Kingdom finaliter under God's Glory, though the People are as Subjects to obey the King, it is to that end, the common good.