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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.
XXIX. Accordingly, I at Coventry engaged in a dispute against Mr. Cradock, and Mr. Diamond, to prove Remission of Sin (not only Conditional but Actual) to be an Immediate effect of Christ's Death, and pleaded for it, Heb. 1. 3. and Rom. 8 32. (and against Universal Redemption) which I since perceive I misunderstood and abused.
XXX. I repent that I sooner enquired not into the danger that the Land was in by Cromwell and his Sectaries: And I repent that when his fundamental Troop at Cambridge (which after made Commanders headed his Army) wrote to me with Subscribed Names to be their Pastor, I refused and rejected the offer to their offence, telling them that I was neither for a Military Church nor an Independent popular Church; Had I gone to them then, what might I have prevented?
XXXI. Though I am not able to see, that I did not my Duty (my most Self-denying and costly Duty) in taking the defence of the Nation, Religion, King and Parliament (to be reduced to Unity) to be my necessary Employment (while I owned not their Miscarriages) yet knowing the frailty of my understanding, I daily beg of God, that if I was mistaken he will make me know it (for which I have long Prayed); and that he will pardon my Sins, which I would fain know, and fain repent of, and publicly confess if I could know them; but dare not take the greatest Duty of my life to be my Sin.
XXXI. Though I am not able to see, that I did not my Duty (my most Self-denying and costly Duty) in taking the defence of the Nation, Religion, King and Parliament (to be reduced to Unity) to be my necessary Employment (while I owned not their Miscarriages) yet knowing the frailty of my understanding, I daily beg of God, that if I was mistaken he will make me know it (for which I have long Prayed); and that he will pardon my Sins, which I would fain know, and fain repent of, and publickly confess if I could know them; but dare not take the greatest Duty of my life to be my Sin.