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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.
§ 37. Accus. XXIV. [It's probable his Church History had its conception at the same time.]
Ans About Forty years after 1640. Forty years breaks no square with this sort of Men: I would this lort of History were not too common with them.
§ 38. Accus. XXV. Page 23 [He feigneth me in my Church History to commend all the Heretics, and omit what is good of the Fathers and Martyrs, and write only their faults.]
§ 38. Accus. XXV. Page 23 [He feigneth me in my Church History to commend all the Hereticks, and omit what is good of the Fathers and Martyrs, and write only their faults.]
Ans. It seems he thought that without reading the Book that disproveth him, his Faction would take his word that he saith true.