Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called…

Chap. III. The Reasons why I cannot without known gross Lying, profess such Repentance as Dr. Stillingfleet's Anonymus Second, and many such others call for, or expect.

§ 1. AS it is no less sin to Murder ones self, than to Murder another, so it is no less to belie ones self than to belie another. Yea it is the greater in that it is like to be more against knowledge, we being better acquainted with our own thoughts and deeds than with other Mens: And it would be the greater sin in me, because that the Father of Lies purposely designeth his calumnies, to cause hatred in many, and to frustrate all my Writings both to the Church and to particular Souls.

§ 2. Why I cannot Repent of my Writings against the Sadducees or Brutists, the Antitrinitarians, the Somatists, the Quakers, the Anabaptists, the Antinomians, the Papists, the Separating Dividers, and the rest before-mentioned, the Books that I have written against them express my Reasons. But no Men call me to it by such an agreeing number of voices as the late Protestant Conformists of that fiercer sort who appropriate to themselves the Name of the Episcopal Church of England, especially those that are for a Foreign or Universal Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. And no Man hath done it with such virulent malice as the Anonymus Author of the Book called, The Second part of the Unreasonableness of Separation as seconding Dr. Stillingfleet. Whose Libel I shall now peruse, and return the Reasons why I cannot Repent of all that he reciteth by way of Accusation.

§ 2. Why I cannot Repent of my Writings against the Sadduers or Brutists, the Antitrinitarians, the Somatists, the Quakers, the Anabaptists, the Antinominians, the Papists, the Separating Dividers, and the rest before-mentioned, the Books that I have written against them express my Reasons. But no Men call me to it by such an agreeing number of voices as the late Protestant Conformists of that fiercer sort who appropriate to themselves the Name of the Episcopal Church of England, especially those that are for a Forreign or Universal Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. And no Man hath done it with such virulent malice as the Anonymus Author of the Book called, The Second part of the Unreasonableness of Separation as seconding Dr. Stillingfleet. Whose Libel I shall now peruse, and return the Reasons why I cannot Repent of all that he reciteth by way of Accusation.