A26982:262
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 in all this time I was driven far off and kept constantly to the public Church (at Toteridge.)
But in all this time I was driven far off and kept constantly to the publick Church (at Toteridge.)
24. I never became the Pastor of any Church since I was expelled from Kidderminster: I offered when I refused a Bishopric to preach there for nothing under the ignorant Reader that was Vicar: But the Lord Chancellor Hyde wrote to Sir Ralph Clare that his Majesty thought himself not well dealt with that Mr. Baxter that had deserved so well of him had not the Vicarage, and he promised to pay the Vicar the worth of it by his own Steward Mr. Clutterbuke, out of his own Rents: But durst not give a Prebend much less a Pastoral Charge to the Vicar, lest it disgrace the Ministry: I was not so ignorant as not to know what the King and Chancellor meant by all this (and by the Gracious Declaration.) But he gave me unsealed the Copy of his Letter to send: And the Vicar answered as he was taught that he would not quit his place for an uncertainty (nor would Bishop Morley let me preach for nothing under him.)
24. I never became the Pastor of any Church since I was expelled from Kiderminster: I offered when I refused a Bishoprick to preach there for nothing under the ignorant Reader that was Vicar: But the Lord Chancellor Hyde wrote to Sir Ralph Clare that his Majesty thought himself not well dealt with that Mr. Baxter that had deserved so well of him had not the Vicaridge, and he promised to pay the Vicar the worth of it by his own Steward Mr. Clutterbuke, out of his own Rents: But durst not give a Prebend much less a Pastoral Charge to the Vicar, lest it disgrace the Ministry: I was not so ignorant as not to know what the King and Chancellor meant by all this (and by the Gracious Declaration.) But he gave me unsealed the Copy of his Letter to send: And the Vicar answered as he was taught that he would not quit his place for an uncertainty (nor would Bishop Morley let me preach for nothing under him.)