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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.
§ 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?
Ans. A Lie so gross that it feigneth me to see far off where I never was. I have answered it before: I was an Eye-witness of many of Gods provident disposals, and an Ear-witness of more. I saw the Field where they fought near Worcester, and Edgehill, and Nantwich, and I saw many Garrisons (Wem, Leicester, Shrewsbury, Exeter, Sherburne, Bristol, Winchester,) that had been taken: But I saw not the Fights at any one of these: But that at Langport that ended the Field War I saw afar off, but saw none killed, for they fled I think before a Man was killed.
Ans. A Lie so gross that it feigneth me to see far off where I never was. I have answered it before: I was an Eye-witness of many of Gods provident disposals, and an Ear-witness of more. I saw the Field where they fought near Worcester, and Edgehill, and Nantwich, and I saw many Garrisons (Wem, Leicester, Shrewsbury, Exeter, Sherburne, Bristol, Winchester,) that had been taken: But I saw not the Fights at any one of these: But that at Langport that ended the Field War I saw afar off, but saw none kill'd, for they fled I think before a Man was kill'd.
§ 45. Accus. XXXII. I repent not of saying that I was rescued from many dangers: Nor that I had many tedious Nights and Days, (in that Army which after Naseby Fight I hazarded my Life and spent my Labour to have undeceived) [and had many doleful sights and tidings.] I saw the Graves and some of the Corps in Ditches near Edgehill, of the Parliaments Soldiers there killed, and many that lay unburied: When after I lived in peace at Coventry, how oft were Soldiers of that Garrison brought home Mortally wounded, and many slain: Few Weeks past in which we heard not of Fights in Fields or Garrisons: Which I thought it lawful to call doleful tidings.