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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.
I repented Writing that Book, 1. Because it came out unseasonably too late.
2. Because in opposition to Harrington, I had pleaded for Monarchy, with some excess, and I wished that I had not meddled with Government, but left all to the Providence of God.
2. Because in opposition to Harrington, I had pleaded for Monarchy, with some excess, and I wisht that I had not medled with Government, but left all to the Providence of God.
3. Because it did occasion more hurt than good: so that it became the common Theme of ambitious young Preachers, especially at Court, before K. Ch. II. as the way to Preferment, to talk against The Holy Commonwealth, falsely persuading men that by a Commonwealth I meant Democracy or Popular Government, which the Book was purposely written against. So that when the Oxford University burnt that Book (with Dr. Whitby's excellent Reconciler, and some others) though I expostulated with the Vice-Chancellor concerning its Principles, I told them I consented that the Book was burnt: though I told them not why, as now I do.
3. Because it did occasion more hurt than good: so that it became the common Theme of ambitious young Preachers, especially at Court, before K. Ch. II. as the way to Preferment, to talk against The Holy Commonwealth, falsly perswading men that by a Commonwealth I meant Democracy or Popular Government, which the Book was purposely written against. So that when the Oxford University burnt that Book (with Dr. Whitby's excellent Reconciler, and some others) though I expostulated with the Vice-Chancellor concerning its Principles, I told them I consented that the Book was burnt: though I told them not why, as now I do.