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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.
§ 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.
§ 117. Accus. XCIX. He falsely allegeth the reason of my unsatisfiedness with Dr. Stillingfleet's Concessions. One of the chief was, that he would have Parents disabled to choose Schools and Tutors for their own Children. But whether such Men as this were not far more against Dr. Stillingfleet's Concessions than I was, let my old Friend, Mr. Samuel Thomas, now of Chard, his Invective against Dr. Whitby and Dr. Stillingfleet, be Judge; and Dr. Stillingfleet himself, who seemed once to yield to Terms of Concord, which many of us offered to him and others. And judge of the peaceableness of that Tribe of Clergy-men, by the University of Oxford's burning Dr. Whitby, a Conformist's excellent Book, called The Reconciler, and his being forced to seem to retract it.
§ 117. Accus. XCIX. He falsly alledgeth the reason of my unsatisfiedness with Dr. Stillingfleet's Concessions. One of the chief was, that he would have Parents disabled to chuse Schools and Tutors for their own Children. But whether such Men as this were not far more against Dr. Stillingfleet's Concessions than I was, let my old Friend, Mr. Samuel Thomas, now of Chard, his Invective against Dr. Whitby and Dr. Stillingfleet, be Judge; and Dr. Stillingfleet himself, who seemed once to yield to Terms of Concord, which many of us offered to him and others. And judge of the peaceableness of that Tribe of Clergy-men, by the University of Oxford's burning Dr. Whitby, a Conformist's excellent Book, called The Reconciler, and his being forced to seem to retract it.