A26982:228
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.
This Man and his Sect would comfort me if I were in fear of that threatening of Christ, Mat. 5. Woe to you when all Men speak well of you.
§ 10. Ibid. He saith, That under a form of Godliness I would destroy the power of it.]
Ans. Hem! What is the Power of Godliness with this Sect of Men! If it be the Power of Silencing the most Godly, and Practical, and Blameless Preachers, and of Beggaring, and Murdering by long Imprisonment in common Goals both Preachers and Hearers that will not give over all public Worship of God like Atheists, till they dare venture to Lie and be Perjured, and own all that such Men bid them say ⟨p. 33⟩is faultless: If it be the power of Godliness to have an ignorant, worldly, scandalous Priest, who driveth Men from him by his naughtiness, to hate, threaten and ruin them if they will hear any but him, or use any trustier Pastor for their Souls, and that would turn Churches into Prisons, and Sacraments into forced Drenches, to be given by him that can get a Patent for the Trade (which some Patrons and Prelates chosen by a Papist King can easily help him to) then I am against the power of Godliness. Where Gain is Godliness I have long been against the power of it.
Ans. Hem! What is the Power of Godliness with this Sect of Men! If it be the Power of Silencing the most Godly, and Practical, and Blameless Preachers, and of Beggering, and Murdering by long Imprisonment in common Goals both Preachers and Hearers that will not give over all publick Worship of God like Atheists, till they dare venture to Lie and be Perjured, and own all that such Men bid them say ⟨p. 33⟩