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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.
21. I lay quietly in New Prison, though kept waking by the constant noise of rude Prisoners, and knocking under me at the Gate. And upon my Habeas Corpus all the four Judges of the Common Pleas were for my Deliverance.
22. When I was delivered the Parliament making a new Act against Conventicles added three new clauses which drove me to dwell in another County: Where also I went constantly Morning and Evening to the public Church and Common Prayer, and gave 2 l. per Annum to increase the Ministers Maintenance.
22. When I was delivered the Parliament making a new Act against Conventicles added three new clauses which drove me to dwell in another County: Where also I went constantly Morning and Evening to the publick Church and Common Prayer, and gave 2 l. per Annum to increase the Ministers Maintenance.
23. When Ministers had some time forborne public Sacraments in the Parish Churches, I got many of the most Eminent in London together, and in writing gave them so many reasons for such Communion as they approved. But the Oxford Parliament having by an Act Banished us five Miles from all Corporations, forced them from the London Churches when in Conscience they durst not leave London Service; when 100000 had died of the Plague, and the Ministers fled and left the dying without their help, many Nonconformists ventured their lives among them, begged Money for them, and relieved them, and found the dying Persons so much inclined to hear, repent and pray, that this brake the Bonds of the Acts of Uniformity and Banishment, so that they resolved rather to die than to cease preaching while they were out ⟨p. 37⟩