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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.
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.
I always was for King and Parliament, and never against the Kings Person, Power or Prerogative, but only for his return to his Parliament, and against his Will and Instruments: When Hen. VI. was carried about by his Enemies, his Friends fought for him that fought against the Army where his Person was.
I was so far from going into a War with the first, that I only fled to Coventry for a private Refuge, when I was forced from Home (of which enough before.)
§ 16. Accus. III. [And for four years space, which was the heat of the Wars, was an Agent as well as an Eye-witness of most of the terrible Battles that were fought in England.]