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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.
§ 71. Accus. LIV. He maketh a long Accusation again, of my taking the Sequestration; full of gross Falsehoods: Principally, That the Augmentation came out of the Tithes of the Vicarage. A Lye merely forged by him, without the least appearance of Proof. It was granted aliunde, I know not whence, by the Parliament, and paid by them.
§ 71. Accus. LIV. He maketh a long Accusation again, of my taking the Sequestration; full of gross Falshoods: Principally, That the Augmentation came out of the Tythes of the Vicaridge. A Lye merely forged by him, without the least appearance of Proof. It was granted aliunde, I know not whence, by the Parliament, and paid by them.
2. That the Vicar then had little, and he talks of desolate Wives and Children: Whereas the Vicar had no Child, and had 40 l. a Year for doing nothing. His debauched, sottish Curate at Mitton had all his old Pay, without any Abatement; and was connived at by us to read Common Prayer once a day, and the other half of the day they had a worthy Preacher.
2. That the Vicar then had little, and he talks of desolate Wives and Children: Whereas the Vicar had no Child, and had 40 l. a Year for doing nothing. His debauch'd, sottish Curate at Mitton had all his old Pay, without any Abatement; and was connived at by us to read Common Prayer once a day, and the other half of the day they had a worthy Preacher.
3. And as for the 60 l. before and after paid me as Lecturer, the Vicar's Bond for it was procured by his own Friends importunity before the Wars. Oh What a rate do these Accusers set on Souls, that would leave so many to two such Men, whom many Plough-men and Weavers in that Congregation farther excelled in Knowledge, and the Exercise of it, than I will now express.