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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.
§ 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.
§ 42. Accus. XXIX. Page 26. He maketh the repetition of his Forgery a proof that I was guilty of Perjury. 1. Because I was prejudiced against the Bishops at Nineteen, and yet at Ordination took the Oath (to obey my Ordinary in Licitis & Honestis.) Ans. 1. I did not Swear an approbation of Persecution. I was not then prejudiced against ⟨p. 51⟩Episcopacy, but against the sin of Bishops. May not a Man disown such shameless Liars as some Ministers are, without disowning the Ministry? 2. (I was prejudiced against Bishop Morton at Fourteen.) Ans. Utterly false: I honoured him to his death. But when I came to better understanding I disliked turning Confirmation to a mere Ceremony. (For the right use of which I have written a Treatise agreeing to Dr. Hammond.)