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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. 1. Uneasy? To whom? To the King? I have his Testimony to the contrary: He sent D. Lauderdale to me purposely to invite me to receive the Testification of his Favour and Acceptance? Read his Character of us in his Gracious Declaration. Read Mr. Gaches Letter to me for the King, translated and published by the means of Duke ⟨p. 44⟩Lauderdale. I know nothing that I did to make his Government uneasy, unless all my labour to have united his Subjects made it uneasy: Or unless his Confessor Huddleston was in the right, that he was before for the Roman Religion, and it was uneasy to him to be stopped in promoting it: Of which confess I was oft guilty.
Ans. 1. Uneasie? To whom? To the King? I have his Testimony to the contrary: He sent D. Lauderdale to me purposely to invite me to receive the Testification of his Favour and Acceptance? Read his Character of us in his Gracious Declaration. Read Mr. Gaches Letter to me for the King, translated and published by the means of Duke ⟨p. 44⟩Lauderdale. I know nothing that I did to make his Government uneasie, unless all my labour to have united his Subjects made it uneasie: Or unless his Confessor Huddleston was in the right, that he was before for the Roman Religion, and it was uneasie to him to be stopt in promoting it: Of which confess I was oft guilty.
But if he mean the Prelates Government, I believe I did much to make it uneasy to them. I laboured by such reasons to have prevented their ejecting 2000 Godly Ministers at once, and all the Cruelties and Miseries that have followed, that it must needs be uneasy to their Consciences and Credit, while they could make no answer to the proof of their iniquity. I gave such reasons against their Lay Excommunicators, and their Cursing Canons, and their causeless and obstinate dividing of the National Church by their frivolous, tearing Impositions, as must make Cruelty the more uneasy. But (if I be not blind and mad) the Government of Church and State had been more easy, if they would have heard our pacificatory Requests.