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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. I find too little in this Accuser that is near to Truth. How easily▪ by such Fictions, may he turn much of the Gospel into Blasphemies?
§ 105. Accus. LXXXVII. He addeth, [And who can wonder, if he that speaks thus of the Master, should not stick to revile his Disciples; making the Conformists so many deliberately perjured Persons?]
Ans. 1. Must we not refuse Perjury, for fear of your supposition that we accuse you? We professed not to accuse you, but to prove that it would be Perjury in us.
2. But if you are guilty, is not that more to be feared by you, than our saying why we dare not imitate you?
§ 106. Accus. LXXXVIII. He addeth, [And which is—Mendacium magnum, that about Six Thousand Persons that had gone the other way, did declare their Assent and Consent to a Book which they never saw.]