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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.
§ 22. Accus. IX. [So that I could not devise to give a better Epitome of the late Rebellion and Schism, than this account of Mr. B's Actions and Writings, which is an Abstract of the rise and progress of both in whom they yet both live, and with whom I wish they may both die.]
Ans. To the same purpose saith Morley of me, Ex uno disce omnes. And though I unfeignedly think my self worse than the most Nonconforming Ministers that I know, yet I entreat all Foreigners and Natives of future Ages to think no worse of the Parliament and Nonconformists, than this Accusation alloweth them to do. They were at least no worse than I; which I say because the Accusers seem to allow you this much: And all the rest have not wrote above Six score Books to make themselves known, as I have done; and so by me you may know the worst of them ex uno omnes.
Ans. To the same purpose saith Morley of me, Ex uno disce omnes. And though I unfeignedly think my self worse than the most Nonconforming Ministers that I know, yet I intreat all Forreigners and Natives of future Ages to think no worse of the Parliament and Nonconformists, than this Accusation alloweth them to do. They were at least no worse than I; which I say because the Accusers seem to allow you this much: And all the rest have not wrote above Sixscore Books to make themselves known, as I have done; and so by me you may know the worst of them ex uno omnes.
The Sum of my wickedness is the Wars. But, 1. What's this to all the rest of the Ejected Silenced Ministers, of whom I think there is not living one of fifty or a hundred that ever meddled with the Wars? ⟨p. 45⟩(though one Archbishop did, and many that Conform.) And why would they never grant my earnest request that they would Silence only me, and all others that had any hand in the War (except the Conformists) and no more?