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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.
§ 35. Accus. XXII. He saith that [in 1640. I entered into a War against the King.]
§ 35. Accus. XXII. He saith that [in 1640. I entred into a War against the King.]
Ans. Whereas the War in England began not till 1642. And I never meddled in War but as aforementioned long after.
Ans. Whereas the War in England began not till 1642. And I never medled in War but as aforementioned long after.
§ 36. Accus. XXIII. He saith by [the Treatise of Diocesan Episcopacy meditated 1640. I broached Faction in the Church, my Pen disdaining to be less active than my Sword.]
§ 36. Accus. XXIII. He saith by [the Treatise of Diocesane Episcopacy meditated 1640. I broached Faction in the Church, my Pen disdaining to be less active than my Sword.]
Ans. 1. I never struck with a Sword in War or Peace. 2. Did Meditating broach a Book that was not published nor written till thirty years after? 3. Is it Faction to give reasons why I Swore not to Faction, even that Antiepiscopal sort of Diocesans that put down many hundred Churches and Bishops to set up the Name and Image of one? 4. Why is not that Book answered to this day, when so many Nonconformists have Challenged, Called and Begged for an Answer to it? Will a Lying Scorn satisfy any Conscionable Nonconformist? 5. That Book owneth so much of Bishops, and Diocesans, and Archbishops, (which Sir Edward Dering condemned) that these Men now show that it is not such as I only, but such as Grotius, Spalatensis, Usher,