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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
Chapter 2 › Section 1: The Author's Profession of his own Repentance.
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.
XIV. Mr. Henry Dodwell censureth me for not taking the Office of Presbyters to be specified or measured and varied by the Will of the Bishop or Ordainer, and not determined by the Institution of Christ; and for not denying the Presbyters and Bishops of all the Reformed Churches to be really Ministers, and their Churches true Churches) who have not an uninterrupted Succession of Canonical Ordination by Diocesans as from the days of the Apostles, and that they commit not the Sin against the Holy Ghost by administering Sacraments as being but Lay-Men; while he holdeth such as the French to be true Ministers.
XIV. Mr. Henry Dodwell censureth me for not taking the Office of Presbyters to be specified or measured and varied by the Will of the Bishop or Ordainer, and not determined by the Institution of Christ; and for not denying the Presbyters and Bishops of all the Reformed Churches to be really Ministers, and their Churches true Churches) who have not an uninterrupted Succession of Canonical Ordination by Diocesans as from the days of the Apostles, and that they commit not the Sin against the Holy Ghost by administring Sacraments as being but Lay-Men; while he holdeth such as the French to be true Ministers.
XV. The Erastians censure me for vindicating the Power of the Keys and the necessity of Ministerial Church Discipline.
XVI. The Independents blame me for being for a National Church; and some of them for being against their unnecessary Covenanting terms of Communion, and their giving too much Power to popular Votes.