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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.
§ 4. But as to my Account of my Opinion about the Wars, I must entreat you to take it as it is given you: Not as a peremptory justification of all that I did, but as the reasons which yet I see not answered, desiring that where I err God will better inform me; that I may neither, condemn the just, nor justify any sin.
§ 4. But as to my Account of my Opinion about the Wars, I must intreat you to take it as it is given you: Not as a peremptory justification of all that I did, but as the reasons which yet I see not answered, desiring that where I erre God will better inform me; that I may neither, condemn the just, nor justifie any sin.
§ 5. But besides your Authors Accusations, you have added two heinous ones of your own. 1. That before some Book of another's, speaking of Order among Devils I clapped in that Expression, By what Names or Titles soever Dignified or Distinguished: And you did not think Hell could have done the like; because it is a common Pulpit Expression.]
§ 5. But besides your Authors Accusations, you have added two heinous ones of your own. 1. That before some Book of anothers, speaking of Order among Devils I clapt in that Expression, By what Names or Titles soever Dignified or Distinguished: And you did not think Hell could have done the like; because it is a common Pulpit Expression.]
I fear that you are over-tender of your Parties honour, to some degree of melancholy suspiciousness, that could find so much of Hell in those words. I think I have not heard those words in the Pulpit thrice (to my remembrance) in forty years.