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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.
And I hereby according to your desire earnestly entreat the Reverend Clergy Men who judge of my faults as you do, that in Charity they will help to convince me of them (but not as Bishop Morley, and the Author of the Mischiefs have done by multiplied untruths in matter of fact.) But it must be speedily, or death will make it come too late.
And I hereby according to your desire earnestly intreat the Reverend Clergy Men who judge of my faults as you do, that in Charity they will help to convince me of them (but not as Bishop Morley, and the Author of the Mischiefs have done by multiplied untruths in matter of fact.) But it must be speedily, or death will make it come too late.
§ 12. And as to Retractations, I have here and oft already searched after and Retracted all that I can find amiss in my Writings as to the MATTER or Doctrine: But as for the MANNER I dare not wholly justify any one leaf that ever I wrote; nor undertake to correct all that is amiss: I never did any thing that might not have been better done: Sometime there is disorder: And sometime Omissions, and oft uncomely Repetitions, and always too much dullness and frigidity about high and holy things: And about lesser and personal matters, I am conscious that I am oft too sharp and provoking: But about the heinous sins of Church Corrupters, Confounders, Dividers, Silencers, Persecutors and Betrayers to a Foreign Jurisdiction, I fear lest I have said too little, though the guilty hate me for saying so much.
§ 12. And as to Retractations, I have here and oft already search'd after and Retracted all that I can find amiss in my Writings as to the MATTER or Doctrine: But as for the MANNER I dare not wholly justifie any one leaf that ever I wrote; nor undertake to correct all that is amiss: I never did any thing that might not have been better done: Sometime there is disorder: And sometime Omissions, and oft uncomely Repetitions, and always too much dulness and frigidity about high and holy things: And about lesser and personal matters, I am conscious that I am oft too sharp and provoking: But about the heinous sins of Church Corrupters, Confounders, Dividers, Silencers, Persecutors and Betrayers to a Forreign Jurisdiction, I fear lest I have said too little, though the guilty hate me for saying so much.