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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.
SECTION 5.
XXIV. I Greatly repent that I at Coventry took the Scots Covenant, for the many Reasons which I shall hereafter rehearse. And that once I gave it to one Man, a Papist Physician who pretended to be converted, and desired me to give it him: But suspecting his Hypocrisy, I never gave it more, but kept I think Thousands from taking it in Worcestershire and elsewhere. I thought at first that it was intended only as a Test to the Garrisons and Armies, and knew not that it would after be made a dividing test for the Magistracy, and Ministry through the Land: which yet by the tenor of it, I might have understood. But I repent not that I neither sware nor subscribed that no man that ever took it, is obliged by it to that part which is good and necessary: Perjury is no jesting Matter.
XXIV. I Greatly repent that I at Coventry took the Scots Covenant, for the many Reasons which I shall hereafter rehearse. And that once I gave it to one Man, a Papist Physition who pretended to be converted, and desired me to give it him: But suspecting his Hypocrisie, I never gave it more, but kept I think Thousands from taking it in Worcestershire and elsewhere. I thought at first that it was intended only as a Test to the Garisons and Armies, and knew not that it would after be made a dividing test for the Magistracy, and Ministry through the Land: which yet by the tenour of it, I might have understood. But I repent not that I neither sware nor subscribed that no man that ever took it, is obliged by it to that part which is good and necessary: Perjury is no jesting Matter.