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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. Not unless Cainism be Conformity, or twenty four years old be my Youth, such as your Writings, and Doings, are an ill cure of prejudice.
§ 34. Accus. XXI. Is, that I broke my Oaths to the King and Ecclesiastical Superiors whom I was bound to obey]
Ans. I thought verily that I broke neither, I Swore not to obey the Convocation, much less against the Parliament, in unlawful Canons and imposed Oaths, never yet Authorized: I took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and thought that defending the Land against Armed Delinquents, and Irish, and Papists Insurrections, had been no breach of it. If I was mistaken the Lord convince me and forgive me: But your way is unapt to it.
Let the Reader peruse but Sir Edward Deering's Speeches in Parliament, proving that this Et caetera Oath was sinfully imposed without Authority, by them that were neither a Convocation, a Synod or Commissioners; the same Man that spake so much for Liturgy and Episcopacy, against Presbytery and Independency: And I doubt not but it was flat Perjury that by it we were required to Swear, viz. [That the described Et caetera Government of the Church ought so to stand.]