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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.
Accus. I. Particularly: Who is there among the Living that entertained more early Prejudices against the Bishops?] Ans. Mendac. I. I thought them to be of Divine Institution, till after I was Ordained. And since then I have proved it of the Primitive Episcopacy: And opposed none but that sort of Diocesans who put down all the Bishops and Churches ⟨p. 42⟩that should be under them, and will be the sole Bishops of many hundred or score Parishes, making true Episcopal Discipline impossible, and substituting a delusion.
§ 15. Accus. II. [That left his Calling as a Minister of Peace, and entered with the first into a War against the King.]
§ 15. Accus. II. [That left his Calling as a Minister of Peace, and entred with the first into a War against the King.]
Mendac. II. I never left my Calling, nor ever took Command or Office, or so much as a Chaplains relation to any Soldiers, nor pay for it: Save that when Naseby Fight almost ended the War, I went a Chaplain to have tried to save the Land from Rebellion.
Mendac. II. I never left my Calling, nor ever took Command or Office, or so much as a Chaplains relation to any Souldiers, nor pay for it: Save that when Naseby Fight almost ended the War, I went a Chaplain to have tryed to save the Land from Rebellion.