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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.
XXVI. And though I thought that a Parliament's Judgment was above all Lawyers, yet I repent that I had not more diligently consulted Lawyers on the other side: Though indeed I knew not well where to find them, the Lawyers of my Acquaintance being for the Parliament.
XXVII. And whereas I then thought that Neutrality was a heinous Sin, to stand by in the Danger of the Land; I now repent of that Opinion; considering that in a case of Blood, Men should very clearly be resolved before they venture on either side.
XXVIII. And I repent that I was by Ignorance, in too much fear of Religion by the danger of Arminianism; and thought too hardly of the Laudian party on that account: For though I am no Arminian, I have fully proved in my Catholic Theology, that the difference is more verbal and small, than the Zealots of either side do imagine: which Book is yet answered by none.
XXVIII. And I repent that I was by Ignorance, in too much fear of Religion by the danger of Arminianism; and thought too hardly of the Laudian party on that account: For though I am no Arminian, I have fully proved in my Catholick Theology, that the difference is more verbal and small, than the Zealots of either side do imagine: which Book is yet answered by none.