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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.
I must repent for telling, that one of my Reading Masters, (that only officiated in the Church) never preached but once, and that with the notorious signs of being Drunk in Eyes and Tongue, on that terrible Text, Mat. 25. Go ye cursed, &c. What enmity to the Church is it to complain of such Men? But we were so often whipped when he came in Drunk, that made us as weary of him as the Fined and Imprisoned Ministers are of the Persecuting Bishops.
I must repent for telling, that one of my Reading Masters, (that only officiated in the Church) never preach'd but once, and that with the notorious signs of being Drunk in Eyes and Tongue, on that terrible Text, Mat. 25. Go ye cursed, &c. What enmity to the Church is it to complain of such Men? But we were so often whipt when he came in Drunk, that made us as weary of him as the Fined and Imprisoned Ministers are of the Persecuting Bishops.
§ 24 Page 17. Accus. XI. [At Nineteen years of Age he had a distaste against Bishops as Persecutors.]
Ans. But not as Bishops; I cannot repent of distasting Persecutors: It was Born in me, and New born: May not one be a Christian that loveth not Persecution?