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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.
§ 79. Accus. LXII. Pag 66, &c. He accuseth me, as accusing King Charles the First of too much favouring the Grotian design of Union with the Papists. But, 1. Doth he say a word so much as to deny his Letter to the Pope, to venture Crown and all for Union? 2. Or to deny his sworn Articles for Toleration, mentioned in Rushworth's Collections, and others? 3. Or to deny the Papists Murders in Ireland, and their power in the King's Armies in England? 4. Or that he set up such Bishops as Laud, Bromhall, and others? But if accusing these Men be my Crime, (when I would have saved England from them,) Reader, peruse but a full Treatise, which I have long ago written, and hope to get speedily printed, with the very words of Laud, Bromhall, Gunning, Saywell, Thorndike, Heylin, Pierce, Parker, Sparrow, Beveridge, &c. for our Subjection to a Foreign Jurisdiction, (which the Kingdom is sworn against,) and then judge whether I accuse them wrongfully. Must we be brought under Aristocratical Popery, or French Church-Government, merely by saying It is not Popery? And must the Land so tamely be perjured and enslaved?
§ 80 Accus. LXIII. Pag. 67. [He hath been made use of as one of the most keen and Catholic Tools, that ever the Papacy did employ.]
§ 80 Accus. LXIII. Pag. 67. [He hath been made use of as one of the most keen and Catholick Tools, that ever the Papacy did employ.]
Ans. 1. 'Tis an unrighteous Honour to Popery to call it Catholic, while they are a Sect contrary to Catholicism. But why then do not these Men love and cherish me, while they are striving for a Foreign Jurisdiction, if I be so much for them?
Ans. 1. 'Tis an unrighteous Honour to Popery to call it Catholick, while they are a Sect contrary to Catholicism. But why then do not these Men love and cherish me, while they are striving for a Foreign Jurisdiction, if I be so much for them?