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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.
Ans. Notoriously false: My Political Aphorisms witness my complaints then, and let him tell if he can, where or when I complained of Arbitrary Government since King Charles the Second came in. I knew he did what was done against us by Parliaments. I knew the Bishops got Laws for their purpose. But if I complain more of Persecution, it is because I think it no sin to feel, nor a Duty to love the Silencing of Faithful Ministers, and laying them in Goals for nothing but preaching the Gospel, nor was I of the mind that undoing thousands of sincere godly Christians was no Persecution, I dare not rail at Christ's Judgment, Matth. 25. that reckoneth that as done for or against him that is done for or against the least of those whom he calleth Brethren while Pharisees call them Accursed. Till Cruel Persecution be Sanctity, it will be no sin to hate it.
§ 64. Accus. LI. But that which followeth is a most notorious outfacing the most public notice of the Land, Page 47. Did not the Secluded Members upon their readmission reinforce the Engagement to be true and faithful to the Common-wealth without a King or House or Lords.]
§ 64. Accus. LI. But that which followeth is a most notorious outfacing the most publick notice of the Land, Page 47. Did not the Secluded Members upon their readmission reinforce the Engagement to be true and faithful to the Common-wealth without a King or House or Lords.]
Ans. So far were they from this, that they were cast out immediately for Voting the satisfactoriness of the Kings Commissions, and his return to London: And upon their readmission they voted their own dissolution that a free Parliament might be called, and were never for the Engagement, but abhorred it, though the Royalists at their Compositions ordinarily took it (when I wrote against it.)