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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. He doth not tell you how fully I have answered this, in the Apology which he accuseth. And every Boy and Woman cannot disprove him.
2. Who is to be Judge who the Preachers were that caused our Confusions? The old Parliament said, it was such as Laud, Sibth•rp, Mainwaring, and those that drew the King from his Parliament. If I knew this Man to be wiser or greater than the Parliament, I might prefer his Judgment, and prefer the Hundreds cast out for Scandal, before those that are imprisoned for preaching.
3. Why would they never grant our frequent Petitions, to silence only those that never meddled with War, or had no Accusation against them for any such Confusions, and spare not those that had been guilty? Were all the Thousands guilty of the Wars, that were Children or School-boys?
3. Why would they never grant our frequent Petitions, to silence only those that never medled with War, or had no Accusation against them for any such Confusions, and spare not those that had been guilty? Were all the Thousands guilty of the Wars, that were Children or School-boys?