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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.
§ 76 Accus. LIX. He dipped his Pen, not in Gall and Vinegar, but in the very poison of Asps, to keep open the wounds of the expiring Church: To which end, he endeavours to draw his Neighbour-Ministers into an Association, and procures the Worcestershire-Agreement; the design of which you may see in his Gildas Salvianus]
§ 76 Accus. LIX. He dipped his Pen, not in Gall and Vinegar, but in the very poyson of Asps, to keep open the wounds of the expiring Church: To which end, he endeavours to draw his Neighbour-Ministers into an Association, and procures the Worcestershire-Agreement; the design of which you may see in his Gildas Salvianus]
Ans. I have here some help to understand Christ, [They that kill you, shall think they do God service.] What Duty so great, that some will not say is a Crime that deserveth death? The Agreement accused is printed in a Book called Christian Concord: The terms of it were, that Episcopal, and Presbyterians and Independents, should agree in the practice of so much of the Ministry and Church-Discipline as they were agreed about in their Judgments or Principles, and be left in the rest to their several Liberties. Was this a Crime? Is an Attempt of voluntary Concord and Peace the poison of Asps? Or is not the poison of Asps under their lips, that are haters of it, and have not known the way of peace? I have had thanks from Helvetia, and other parts of Germany, for that Gildas Salvianus, and that pacificatory Attempt; which is to these Men the poison of Asps.
Ans. I have here some help to understand Christ, [They that kill you, shall think they do God service.] What Duty so great, that some will not say is a Crime that deserveth death? The Agreement accused is printed in a Book called Christian Concord: The terms of it were, that Episcopal, and Presbyterians and Independents, should agree in the practice of so much of the Ministry and Church-Discipline as they were agreed about in their Judgments or Principles, and be left in the rest to their several Liberties. Was this a Crime? Is an Attempt of voluntary Concord and Peace the poyson of Asps? Or is not the poyson of Asps under their lips, that are haters of it, and have not known the way of peace? I have had thanks from Helvetia, and other parts of Germany, for that Gildas Salvianus, and that pacificatory Attempt; which is to these Men the poyson of Asps.