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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.
XXXV. Though my Conscience telleth me that the very many Books which I after wrote, were for the propagating and defending of needful Truth, and that I never trusted to any thing but Truth and Evidence for Victory, yet I fear lest in many of them there be the faultiness of some imprudent provoking words, and that I did not always sufficiently consider what mistaking men cannot bear, as well as what is congruous to the Matter and Cause. I still found it difficult to avoid too much Keenness, and yet not to wrong the Cause by dull pretence of Lenity.
XXXVI. Two things concurred to cause me to write my Political Aphorisms or Holy Common-wealth, of which I afterward repented.
1. James Harrington wrote his Oceana for a loose Popular Government, and Sir H. Vane was contriving another for a Military and Fanatic Democracy; both which I saw were utterly inconsistent with the Obligations, Peace and Safety of the Land.
1. James Harrington wrote his Oceana for a loose Popular Government, and Sir H. Vane was contriving another for a Military and Phanatick Democracy; both which I saw were utterly inconsistent with the Obligations, Peace and Safety of the Land.