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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.
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?
§ 81. Accus. LXIV. Pag. 68. [That I am for a mixture of Episcopal, Presbyterian and Independent Government.]
Ans. And what harm is that? I am for that which is good in all, and for the Faults of none: But these Men must needs be faultless, and curse all others, that they may bless themselves. But am I Episcopal, and yet the greatest Enemy to Episcopacy? Are they for Episcopacy that put down hundreds, to set up one in their stead?
§ 82. Accus. LXV. The next Accusation is, That my five Disputations of Church-Government came out to keep out Episcopacy, and justify our Ordination.]