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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.
25. When the King sent out his Declaration that gave us leave to preach, I returned to London, and chose only St. Martins Parish to preach in, because there were said to be above Sixty Thousand Souls more than could hear in the Church; and hiring a room over the Market-house at St. James's (where we were all delivered by almost a Miracle from a crack in the Floor) I published to the Hearers (and left to them in writing) that I came not thither to gather or preach to any new Church, or as separating from the Parish Church, but (being Vowed to the Ministry) in necessary compassion pro tempore to help part of the many thousands that could not come into the Parish Church: For which some Separatists censured me: And we used the Scripture, part of the Liturgy and more.
26. Being driven from that Room by the breach of the Main-beam, I built a Room and Leased the Ground at too dear rates in Oxendenstreet near. But had preached but one Sermon, but Secretary Henry Coventry with two Justices more came with a Warrant to apprehend me, and I being twenty Miles distant, they seized on Mr. Sedden a stranger that preached for me: And though he had by the Cromwellians ⟨p. 38⟩suffered Imprisonment for seeking to bring in King Charles the Second, they sent him to the Goal, where it cost me twenty pound for his Charges, but my Wisest and most Over-valuing Friend Judge Hale proved the Mittimus void, and released him by the Sentence of all the Court.
26. Being driven from that Room by the breach of the Main-beam, I built a Room and Leased the Ground at too dear rates in Oxendenstreet near. But had preached but one Sermon, but Secretary Henry Coventree with two Justices more came with a Warrant to apprehend me, and I being twenty Miles distant, they seized on Mr. Sedden a stranger that preached for me: And though he had by the Cromwellians ⟨p. 38⟩suffered Imprisonment for seeking to bring in King Charles the Second, they sent him to the Goal, where it cost me twenty pound for his Charges, but my Wisest and most Over-valuing Friend Judge Hale proved the Mittimus void, and released him by the Sentence of all the Court.