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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.
3. He nameth [my omitting the Cross and Surplice.] Ans. I never Sware nor Promised to use them; being in no station that obliged me to it: And was under an Ordinary that required it not. And I have confessed my sin in rash subscribing to their lawfulness.
3. He nameth [my omitting the Cross and Surplice.] Ans. I never Sware nor Promised to use them; being in no station that obliged me to it: And was under an Ordinary that required it not. And I have confest my sin in rath subscribing to their lawfulness.
§ 43. Accus. XXX. Page 27. He tragically reciteth the reasons I alleged why I was for the Parliament: But his confutation is only by an Exclamation how bad I was, as worse than Cook and Bradshaw, as if I had been for the death of the King. When he knoweth that the Parliament was broken up by Cromwell for being for the Kings Restoration and their Union: And that a Faction called the Rump did this as Cromwell's Confederates. I believe I did more against that Faction than many such as he.
§ 43. Accus. XXX. Page 27. He tragically reciteth the reasons I alledged why I was for the Parliament: But his confutation is only by an Exclamation how bad I was, as worse than Cook and Bradshaw, as if I had been for the death of the King. When he knoweth that the Parliament was broken up by Cromwell for being for the Kings Restoration and their Union: And that a Faction called the Rump did this as Cromwell's Confederates. I believe I did more against that Faction than many such as he.
§ 44. Accus. XXXI. Page 27, 28. [With what Heart could he be an Eye-witness of the Inhumane Butcheries that had been made in almost every Fight from the beginning of the Wars?