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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.
And it confirmed their Suspicion when the Queen brought in a Popish Army under General King, and the Earl of Newcastle's Army had so great a number of Papists, and after the Earl of Glamorgan was authorized to have brought over an Army of Irish Papists, and the English Regiments that fought there against them, had been called hither to fight against the Parliament, and were routed at Nantwich.
And it confirmed their Suspition when the Queen brought in a Popish Army under General King, and the Earl of Newcastle's Army had so great a number of Papists, and after the Earl of Glamorgan was authorized to have brought over an Army of Irish Papists, and the English Regiments that fought there against them, had been called hither to fight against the Parliament, and were routed at Nantwich.
No wonder if men thought that England would have been made too like to Ireland whether the King would or not, had such Armies Conquered.
27. The Parliament Protested to be for the King, and not against his Person, or Legal Power or Prerogative, but only against his Illegal Will, to defend themselves and the Kingdom, from an unlawful Army, and to bring Delinquents to Legal Trial and Punishment: And they accordingly ⟨p. 20⟩gave out all their Commissions; till the Cause was changed by fairfax's Commission, that left out the King. And the Soldiers of the Garrison where I was, commonly believed this to be their Obligation, and the true Case of the War, viz. Offensive against armed Delinquents as the Sheriff may raise the Posse Comitatus), and Defensive against the Kings illegal Will, and Way.
27. The Parliament Protested to be for the King, and not against his Person, or Legal Power or Prerogative, but only against his Illegal Will, to defend themselves and the Kingdom, from an unlawful Army, and to bring Delinquents to Legal Tryal and Punishment: And they accordingly