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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.
§ 69. You may partly judge by their Works, their Writings and their Lives. Compare the Writings and Ministerial Labours of the Conformists and Nonconformists, these thirty years, or since the New Impositions. Some pious Conformists have done extraordinarily well: Especially Dr. Barrow. Dr. Tillotson, Dr. Patrick, Dr. Stillingfleet, Dr. Tennison, &c. And is there not the same Spirit of Wisdom, Piety and Peace in the Writings of Anthony Burgess, Mr. Charnock, Dr. Manton, Dr. Bates, Mr H•w, Richard Alleine, Joseph Alleine, Tho. Gouge, Mr. Swinnock, Dr G•lpin, many Volumes of the Morning Lectures, Mr. Flavel's, Mr. Steel's, Mr. Ambrose's, and many more such.
§ 69. You may partly judge by their Works, their Writings and their Lives. Compare the Writings and Ministerial Labours of the Conformists and Nonconformists, these thirty years, or since the New Impositions. Some pious Conformists have done extraordinarily well: Especially Dr. Barrow. Dr. Tillotson, Dr. Patrick, Dr. Stillingfleet, Dr. Tennison, &c. And is there not the same Spirit of Wisdom, Piety and Peace in the Writings of Anthony Burgesse, Mr. Charnock, Dr. Manton, Dr. Bates, Mr H•w, Richard Alleine, Joseph Alleine, Tho. Gouge, Mr. Swinnock, Dr G•lpin, many Volumes of the Morning Lectures, Mr. Flavel's, Mr. Steel's, Mr. Ambrose's, and many more such.
This Man singleth out me for one of the worst Men living, and Bishop Morley bid Men judge of all the rest by me; [ab uno disce omnes.] And he was accounted one of the most Eminent of the Clergy for Parts and Orthodoxness: One Book against me called his Letter, is most shameless for untruths in public matters of Fact: His last and greatest is to prove against me that the Parliament hath no part in Legislative Power, nor the whole Kingdoms any right of self defence against any Commissioned by the King on any pretence whatsoever. This Accuser is an Eminent Member of the best Church in the World: Is this bundle of his gross untruths a proof that he is one of the best Men in the World. He saith that the Good that I wrote was for mischievous Ends. And what should move a Man in pain and expectation of speedy death to write above Six score Books great and small, that are contrary to the bent of his own Heart? And for that which he mischievously would overthrow? To spend his Life against his own Affections?