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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.
If he mean the War before the new modelled Army, and new Commission which left out [for the King] after Naseby Fight, I did more ⟨p. 53⟩against that new Cause and War than he, and perhaps many such as he: If he mean the first War stated by the Parliament Commissions [for the King and Parliament] I was in it and for it: Because,
1. He that is for the Highest Power in a Civil War, is of the righter side (caeteris paribus) than he that is against it; but they that were for King and Parliament were for the Highest Power in our Civil War.
Proved: They that were for them that have the Legislative Power, were for them that had the Highest Power (as Morley confesseth and almost all others.) But they that were for King and Parliament were for them that had the Legislative Power. Ergo, &c.
Obj. What Hypocrisy is it to shoot at the King and say you fight for him?
Obj. What Hypocrisie is it to shoot at the King and say you fight for him?