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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.
Here he wonders that any Christian can still take me for a Saint, and the Guide of the Party; and recites some applauding words of Mr. John Humfreys, (no Sectary.) But I take my self for a very great Sinner, and know no Party that take me for their Guide; and am so conscious of my Ignorance, that I know it to be far greater than my Knowledge, and yet my Affections come short of what I know.
The rest of his Invectives, to the end of his first Chapter, are nothing but a rabble of intimated, congested Lies, upon the occasion of the Wars, and perverted Words, unworthy of a Confutation. They are ⟨p. 71⟩all built on the supposition that all that they did against the Parliament and Kingdom was not only just, but necessary; and all the Ignorance, Drunkenness, Ungodliness and Cainism of the vicious part of their Clergy were not to be blamed; but the reproof of them, and endeavours to reform them was heinous wickedness.
The rest of his Invectives, to the end of his first Chapter, are nothing but a rabble of intimated, congested Lyes, upon the occasion of the Wars, and perverted Words, unworthy of a Confutation. They are ⟨p. 71⟩all built on the supposition that all that they did against the Parliament and Kingdom was not only just, but necessary; and all the Ignorance, Drunkenness, Ungodliness and Cainism of the vicious part of their Clergy were not to be blamed; but the reproof of them, and endeavours to reform them was heinous wickedness.
What a Charm is the name of the Diocesan Clergy, that can turn the most scandalous Treachery into Sanctity, and make the best Church in the World of the Haters of serious Godliness, and make a desire of their Reformation to be the badge of intolerable Rebels?