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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.
22. I had read the King's Letter in Spain to the Pope, promising to venture Crown and Life for the Union of the Christian Churches, including the Roman: which is recorded in Mr. Chesne the King of France his Geographer, and in Prin and Rushworth. And whether it be true or not that the Scots say in a Book called Truths Manifest, that K. Charles ⟨p. 18⟩then in Scotland had possession of their Broad Seal, and put that Seal to a Commission for the Irish Insurrection, I am past doubt that K. Ch. II. granted a Commission to Monk, Manchester and others, to try the Marquis of Antrim's Plea, by which it was proved and determined that he had the K. Ch. I's Commission. Though I believe that the King that caused them to rise, allowed them not to Murder all the Protestants: Put whom else were they to rise against but the Protestants? And must they rise against them and not kill them? And was not the Murderous temper and use of the Irish well known?
23. I know that the Irish a year before Edgehill Fight, on that day Oct. 23. 1641. were to have surprised Dublin: And by the full Account of Dr. Henry Jones since Bishop, and Sir John Temple, and the Earl of Orery, Murdered Two hundred Thousand, and boasted that they did it by the King's Commission: and that when they had done there, they would come hither. Though I believed them not, I knew that Two hundred Thousand men dead are past Pleading their own Cause or defending their Country: It is easy to Plead the justness of their Cause against dead Men that cannot contradict them. Solitudinem faciunt, & Pacem vocant. There is no resisting Murderers in the Grave: And I thought that if the King put in Arms and Power, the English Papists of the same Religion, bound to destroy us, his own good meaning could not preserve himself or us. And I knew that the King stopped the Carriage-Horses that were sent by the Parliament to relieve Ireland, and took them for his own Service, and many ways delayed their Relief. Though he offered to go over himself, the Parliament fearing he would go to Head the Irish.