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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. I yet believe that such a Mans Possession, doth not oblige the people to venture their Souls upon his Pastoral Care; and own him for their Teacher, and seek no other: Nor make it a sin for any other to Teach them? No more than the King's Ships or Armies must wilfully cast away Ships and Lives, for want of Conduct, because a Man that hath no tolerable skill is in Possession. How cheap are Souls, or how contemptible is Ministerial Knowledge and Preaching with these Men. You see here what is the best Church in the World in their account, and what it is to destroy it.
4. Almost two years before the Wars, the Vicar conscious of his obnoxiousness, entered into Bond with the chief Magistrates and others of the Town and Parish, to pay 60 l. per Annum to a Lecturer of their choice, he keeping his Vicarage and officiating as Reader: And so he put out Mr. Jo. Did his Preaching Curate, in whose place I came, being before in another County: Which Mr. Did though more offensive before than the Vicar to the Religious people, being after on my Testimony for him, received into a Benefice of his own, was so reconciled to the people of Kidderminster that he Bequeathed much of his Estate to them.
4. Almost two years before the Wars, the Vicar conscious of his obnoxiousness, entred into Bond with the chief Magistrates and others of the Town and Parish, to pay 60 l. per Annum to a Lecturer of their choice, he keeping his Vicaridge and officiating as Reader: And so he put out Mr. Jo. Dide his Preaching Curate, in whose place I came, being before in another County: Which Mr. Dide though more offensive before than the Vicar to the Religious people, being after on my Testimony for him, received into a Benefice of his own, was so reconciled to the people of Kiderminster that he Bequeathed much of his Estate to them.
5. In my absence some years Mr. Dance by Bond owed me about