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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.
Is Repentance for feeling and bewailing all this, so great a duty, as you suppose? and is committing it and preaching it up, a virtue not to be repented of? Doth God require us to mourn and cry for the common evils, if we will escape our selves? Ezek. 9. 4. and to mourn for the reproach of the solemn Assembly, as a burden? Zeph. 3. 17. and is it now a heinous crime? Hath Satan got so much right to his possession, that if he use but the name of the Church for it, they must repent as of hellish evil, that so much as blame it, and call men to Repentance? O how hard is it to be impartial?
§ 7. And when you look back on the Wars, why do you not call them to Repentance (if living) who drew the King from his Parliament to defend Delinquents by an Army from the due course of Legal Justice, and to be ruled by such men of guilt before and against his Supreme Council?
§ 7. And when you look back on the Wars, why do you not call them to Repentance (if living) who drew the King from his Parliament to defend Delinquents by an Army from the due course of Legal Justice, and to be ruled by such men of guilt before and against his Supream Council?
§ 8. I received once a Letter almost like yours from Serenus Cressy; if you were of his Religion, I should less wonder at your partiality for the Church, and its crimes, than at the like in a Protestant. O how little would it have cost your Church-men in 1660 and 1661, to have prevented the calamitous and dangerous Divisions of this Land, and our common dangers thereby, and the hurt that many hundred thousand Souls have received by it? And how little would it cost them yet to prevent the Continuance of it?