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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.
Ans. So none is Good but God only, and the perfect. I confess that I am not so good: If I say that I have no sin, or that I ever did any thing that is sinless and omnimodo bonum and might not have been done ⟨p. 34⟩better, I am a Liar. And is this the Exposition of the Declaration for want of which we are (if we preach) used like Rogues in Goals, viz. That we assent and consent to all things contained in and prescribed by, the Book of Common Prayer, Ordination and Articles, and that there is nothing in it contrary to the Word of God? Is it Integrally perfect: Or must I wish it burnt else? I am not for so hard usage of it, though I cannot justify the prescribing two Easter days in it, and far worse matters. But what is the fault that deserveth burning?
Ans. So none is Good but God only, and the perfect. I confess that I am not so good: If I say that I have no sin, or that I ever did any thing that is sinless and omnimodo bonum and might not have been done ⟨p. 34⟩better, I am a Liar. And is this the Exposition of the Declaration for want of which we are (if we preach) used like Rogues in Goals, viz. That we assent and consent to all things contained in and prescribed by, the Book of Common Prayer, Ordination and Articles, and that there is nothing in it contrary to the Word of God? Is it Integrally perfect: Or must I wish it burnt else? I am not for so hard usage of it, though I cannot justifie the prescribing two Easter days in it, and far worse matters. But what is the fault that deserveth burning?
§ 13. Ibid. [His own Practice demonstrates that his Writings for Peace and Unity are but so many Pleas for Schism and Division. They need an Ignis Expurgatorius.