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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.
§ 40. Accus. XXVII Page 25. He reciteth my mention of the former courses, of undoing Men for hearing a Sermon (of a Godly Conformist) at the next Parish when they had none at home, (and for Fasting and Praying, &c.) And he taketh it for my crime, to call these ungodly Persecutions crimes: So that he that is not for them, while they are tearing the Church, and extirpating serious Piety, is against them. So do the Papists accuse them that blame their Murders and Inquisitions.
§ 41. Accus. XXVIII. Because I said, The War was begun in our Streets by the ungodly drunken Rabble, seeking our Lives, he saith, [In plain English Mr. B. with other Reformers put themselves into Arms, seizing on the Kings Forts, and making them Garrisons against the King, (and this before King or Parliament had any Armies.]
Ans. In plain English this Lie is shameless. Unless a poor hired Chamber was the Kings Fort, I seized on none. The first time the drunken Rabble rose up against me, was for preaching Original Sin: They said that I slandered their Children. The next was for Reading the Parliaments Order to deface the Pictures of the Trinity: The third was by bringing in Soldiers, that drove me away. And it was long after this ere I had a private Lodging in Coventry.
Ans. In plain English this Lie is shameless. Unless a poor hired Chamber was the Kings Fort, I seized on none. The first time the drunken Rabble rose up against me, was for preaching Original Sin: They said that I slandered their Children. The next was for Reading the Parliaments Order to deface the Pictures of the Trinity: The third was by bringing in Souldiers, that drove me away. And it was long after this ere I had a private Lodging in Coventry.