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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.
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 ⟨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 Garison 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.
28. I did believe that if the King by such an Army as he had, should Conquer the Parliament, the Legal and all Probable Security of the Nation, for Life Property, Liberty and Religion, was in all likelihood gone; If it should lye on the King's Will only, thereby it were gone: For what then were our Constitution, or Parliaments for; and what differ we from Slaves? And were he willing (and those with him that meant well) he would not be able to Master such an Army.