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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.
§ 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.
§ 3. I. In his Preface, That my Opinions and Practices have been condemned by the generality of Christians from the most Primitive and Purest Times of the Church. Ans. To which I appeal, and can get no answer.