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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.
5. He saith, [Conformity is to me impossible, as long as any of those which I account heinous Sins, are retained.] Ans. Yes, if Lying be Conformity, to me one Lye is unlawful.
6. That I was always opposing the Party that was uppermost. Ans. If that were true, it seemeth I sought not for Preferment.
7. That I would have the new Liturgy, or nothing. Ans. And yet we offered to use the Old, if amended, so we might not profess it less liable to Exception, than our Translation of the Scripture it self; and left it to the Bishops to join so much of the Additional Forms as they saw good; but the Book was never debated by them.
7. That I would have the new Liturgy, or nothing. Ans. And yet we offered to use the Old, if amended, so we might not profess it less liable to Exception, than our Translation of the Scripture it self; and left it to the Bishops to joyn so much of the Additional Forms as they saw good; but the Book was never debated by them.
§ 88. Accus. LXXI. [I have heard it credibly reported by some Reverend Persons there present that that Treaty might have had the desired effect of Concord had not Mr. B. so obstinately resisted.] Ans. That is, either those Reverend Persons would have amended their Impositions, if I had not Petitioned them to do it, and told them the necessity of it; or else that all the rest of the Commissioned Nonconformists would have Conformed to all the old faults which they protested that they judged sinful, and to all the worse that should after be added, if I had not been against it. These Reverend Persons were as Credible and Reverend as you are; as our present state in England tells us.