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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.
Now either there is some such Obligation, or there is not. If there is, and I should venture, by an Oath, or a Subscription, to justify King, Parliament, and all the Corporations in England, in public, national Perjury, What greater Wickedness could I commit? Would this be a Character of the best Church in the World, to have such Ministers?
Now either there is some such Obligation, or there is not. If there is, and I should venture, by an Oath, or a Subscription, to justifie King, Parliament, and all the Corporations in England, in publick, national Perjury, What greater Wickedness could I commit? Would this be a Character of the best Church in the World, to have such Ministers?
But if there be no Obligation from that Vow, to the things aforesaid, 1. Dr. Sanderson, and most sober Casuists are mistaken: who say, That though a Vow be unlawfully imposed, and unlawfully taken, and part of the Matter be unlawful to be kept, it bindeth us nevertheless to keep the necessary part. And what am I, that I should swear or say that I am wiser than all these Doctors, and sure that they are mistaken?
2 And then I must swear or say, that neither King, nor Lords, nor any one took it in a lawful sense; which else would oblige them. And must I become a Voucher for Thousands whom I never knew?