Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called…

Yet from these false Conjectures about my Father he saith, [You see how early Mr. B's Spirit was fermented with Principles of Faction and Sedition.

Ans. Readers, you see what Faction and Sedition signify in this Mans Mouth.

Ans. Readers, you see what Faction and Sedition signifie in this Mans Mouth.

§ 27. Accus. XIV. Here accusing me for telling how Bishop Morton Confirmed me and many more, (saying a short Collect without a word of Examination or Instruction) he heapeth up divers falsehoods. 1. That my Master was a Minister (I think) is false. 2. He querieth, Did not your Master Examine you? Ans. He was the best of all my Masters, and heard us say the Catechism, but never told us any thing of the sense, nor ever examined whether we understood any of it. 3. He asketh, How know you but your Master certified of you? Ans. If he certified that I understood what Baptismal Covenantings or Confirmation was, or much of the rest, or what Consent I gave to that Covenant, I doubt he certified ⟨p. 47⟩too much: And I being the Head Scholar, all the rest were liker to be ignorant than I: (Except Richard Allestree, who though two or three years younger, had been diligently Catechized by a Nonconforming Minister.)

§ 27. Accus. XIV. Here accusing me for telling how Bishop Morton Confirmed me and many more, (saying a short Collect without a word of Examination or Instruction) he heapeth up divers falshoods. 1. That my Master was a Minister (I think) is false. 2. He querieth, Did not your Master Examine you? Ans. He was the best of all my Masters, and heard us say the Catechism, but never told us any thing of the sence, nor ever examined whether we understood any of it. 3. He asketh, How know you but your Master certified of you? Ans. If he certified that I understood what Baptismal Covenantings or Confirmation was, or much of the rest, or what Consent I gave to that Covenant, I doubt he certified