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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.
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.
2. I never disobeyed my Ordinary's command, but got me to a place where the Ordinary thought as I did.
3. I ever dissuaded people from Separation, and reprehended those Nonconformists that inclined towards it.
3. I ever disswaded people from Separation, and reprehended those Nonconformists that inclined towards it.