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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.
XXXVIII. When I wrote my five Disputations of Church Government, I too hastily mis translated some words of Ignatius, and though I then owned Apostolic Successors in the continued part of their Work, I did not so fully as now understand, how Christ by Institution then founded a National Church, nor what a National Church was; nor how that which was ultimum in execution (a Christian Sovereignty) was primum in intentione, to which bare Preaching was preparatory.
XXXVIII. When I wrote my five Disputations of Church Government, I too hastily mis translated some words of Ignatius, and though I then owned Apostolick Successors in the continued part of their Work, I did not so fully as now understand, how Christ by Institution then founded a National Church, nor what a National Church was; nor how that which was ultimum in executione (a Christian Soveraignty) was primum in intentione, to which bare Preaching was preparatory.
XXXIX. When I wrote my Treatise of Episcopacy, I Calculated it to the Laudian Faction then prevalent, that called it self, the Church of England; and though I distinguished them that put down all the Parochial Pastors and Churches, and turned them all into mere Curates and Chapels (or parts Ecclesiarum infimarum) and so put down hundreds of Bishops and Churches under pretence of magnifying One; from the old Reformed Church of England that put not down these, but only sinfully fettered them, yet I did not so largely open the difference as I ought, which gave Mr. Lob occasion to write confidently for Separation.
XXXIX. When I wrote my Treatise of Episcopacy, I Calculated it to the Laudian Faction then prevalent, that called it self, the Church of England; and though I distinguished them that put down all the Parochial Pastors and Churches, and turned them all into meer Curates and Chappels (or partes Ecclesiarum infimarum) and so put down hundreds of Bishops and Churches under pretence of magnifying One; from the old Reformed Church of England that put not down these, but only sinfully fettered them, yet I did not so largely open the difference as I ought, which gave Mr. Lobb occasion to write confidently for Separation.