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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.
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?
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 medled 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?
2. I thought I had been a Rebel, if I had been against the Parliament, the Representative Kingdom, and the salus populi, or bonum publicum; and I thought the Legislative power was the Supreme, and that this power was in King and Parliament conjunct, and that neither of them had power against the other, but that their Union was the constituted summa potestas, which I was bound to endeavour, and their division was the dissolution of the Government: And I thought that all Subjects were under the Law, and that the King might not protect them from his Courts of Judicature.
2. I thought I had been a Rebel, if I had been against the Parliament, the Representative Kingdom, and the salus populi, or bonum publicum; and I thought the Legislative power was the Supream, and that this power was in King and Parliament conjunct, and that neither of them had power against the other, but that their Union was the constituted summa potestas, which I was bound to endeavour, and their division was the dissolution of the Government: And I thought that all Subjects were under the Law, and that the King might not protect them from his Courts of Judicature.