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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.
§ 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.
Ans. An easy Purgatory! Your Excommunication ipso facto, of all that affirm any thing in your Ceremonies. Ordinations, Liturgies or Church Government to be contrary to the Word of God, threateneth Hell which is worse than Purgatory.
Ans. An easie Purgatory! Your Excommunication ipso facto, of all that affirm any thing in your Ceremonies. Ordinations, Liturgies or Church Government to be contrary to the Word of God, threateneth Hell which is worse than Purgatory.
But Reader, seeing all my Books must be burnt as a Sacrifice to the Accusers of my Conversation as for Schism and Division, I owe the World a particular account of such an accused practice.
1. When I first forbore practical Conformity it was but in a scrupled part: I read most of the Common Prayer, and I received the Sacrament Kneeling.