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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.
His long Invective, to pag. 148. is partly a false Report of my Words, and partly a Justification of all their Persecutions, and an Outcry against a Persuasive to Repentance. Let the Reader but peruse the Books accused, and I desire him but to judge as he seeth cause.
§ 115. Accus. XCVII. If the Reader will himself read my Treatise of Episcopacy, which he accuseth, I will make no other Defence of it than what it maketh for it self. But his Words convince me not, that Reproving Persecutors is worse than Persecuting.
§ 116. Accus XCVIII. He maketh it my Pride to print Mr. Glanvile's Letter to me, though I disowned harshly his excessive Praise,) while Dr. Stillingfleet had called me to it, by printing Foreigners Letters against us. And I must be yet more proud, for telling Bishop Morley and Gunning, that I offered them a Way if Christian Concord, more sure and harmless than that which they had tried, because it was more divine, being only to unite in what Christ hath instituted.]
Ans. 1. It is no pride to say, that Christ is greater and wiser than those Bishops; and that to unite in his own instituted Terms of Union, issurer than the Terms of their Canons, or Act of Uniformity. Is it pride in all the Protestants, that to the Papists prefer Scripture-sufficiency to their Canons.