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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.
§ 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.]
Mendac. IV. I never so much as saw one of those terrible Battles. The first that ever I saw was that at Langport, when the Field War ended: And there I saw not the killing of one Man. Because I said that I saw some Fields and Dead, he forgeth me to have seen the Fights. I never saw the Fight at Edgehill, but being at Alcester, I went to see the Ground and some unburied Bodies the following day. I never saw either of the two Newbury Fights, nor the Country; I never saw the Fight at Horncastle, at Alford, or any in the East, South, West, or North. I never saw the greatest Fight at York, nor ever was in or near the County: I saw not that at Montgomery, nor that at Nampwich, nor any Fight in England, save that aforesaid at Langport, and the flight of our Coventry Men from Banbury: And I went to see the Ground at Naseby when the Armies were gone a day or two before: And I once saw at a distance about thirty Men of a side Fight between Linsell and Longford, where one was killed. Some Sieges I was not far off, while I was with the Armies on the Accounts at large before recited.
Mendac. IV. I never so much as saw one of those terrible Battles. The first that ever I saw was that at Langport, when the Field War ended: And there I saw not the killing of one Man. Because I said that I saw some Fields and Dead, he forgeth me to have seen the Fights. I never saw the Fight at Edgehill, but being at Alcester, I went to see the Ground and some unburied Bodies the following day. I never saw either of the two Newberry Fights, nor the Countrey; I never saw the Fight at Horncastle, at Allford, or any in the East, South, West, or North. I never saw the greatest Fight at York, nor ever was in or near the County: I saw not that at Mongomery, nor that at Nampwich, nor any Fight in England, save that aforesaid at Langport, and the flight of our Coventry Men from Banbury: And I went to see the Ground at Naseby when the Armies were gone a day or two before: And I once saw at a distance about thirty Men of a side Fight between Linsell and Longford, where one was kill'd. Some Sieges I was not far off, while I was with the Armies on the Accounts at large before recited.