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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.
Ans. Mendac. V. What can a Reader say of such Men, that shall find, 1. That I never wrote a word to justify his Death; but only once told the Papists that they were unmeet Accusers, as being guilty of more? 2. I preached against it. 3. I wrote against it, over and over. 4. It cost me the dear Labour and Sufferings of almost two years in the Army, to have kept them in Loyal Obedience. 4. I called them oft and long to Repentance. Whence then did this Man find matter or occasion for such a shameless forgery? As for the Notion of Martyrdom, I leave Canonizing to the Righteous Judge.
Ans. Mendac. V. What can a Reader say of such Men, that shall find, 1. That I never wrote a word to justifie his Death; but only once told the Papists that they were unmeet Accusers, as being guilty of more? 2. I preach'd against it. 3. I wrote against it, over and over. 4. It cost me the dear Labour and Sufferings of almost two years in the Army, to have kept them in Loyal Obedience. 4. I called them oft and long to Repentance. Whence then did this Man find matter or occasion for such a shameless forgery? As for the Notion of Martyrdom, I leave Canonizing to the Righteous Judge.
§ 19. Accus. VI. Who more opposed the Return of our present Sovereign?]
§ 19. Accus. VI. Who more opposed the Return of our present Soveraign?]
Ans. Mendac. VI. 1. Ask for his proof of this. 2. The King testified the contrary. 3. See my Sermon before the Parliament the day before he was Voted Home. 4. And my Sermon to the City on their Thanksgiving called, Right Rejoicing. 5. Would the King have made such an Enemy his Chaplain and a Bishop?