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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.
Therefore all that I can do is, to search my Heart and Life with a sincere willingness to know the Truth, and to confess to God and Man, so much as I can find to be truly sinful, as far as Men are concerned to know it.
XXI. The Italian and Spanish sort of Papists yet deeplier accuse me than most aforesaid, for denying their pretended Vice-Christ, and confuting their Heretical and Schismatical Errors, and proving that by their Conciliar Religion, they profess open Hostility to Christian Kings and Magistrates. One of them 1661. wrote me a Challenge to make this good (having said somewhat of it in my Sermon to the Parliament) which I fully performed: But it hath ever since lain unprinted, for want of License from our Clergy, and Security from the Court.
XXII. The English Diocesan sort who are for an Universal or Foreign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, under the Name of General Councils, and a Collegium Pastorum in the intervals governing per Literas format as, the Pope being Principium Unitatis, and Patriarch of the West, are deep Accusers of me for denying all such Universal and Foreign Jurisdiction, as that which is worse than the Italian sort Popery, and would perjure this Land which is oft Sworn against it: And for taking the Principles urged by Grotius (after his Revolt) to be the French sort of Popery, and for being against that Coalition with such on these terms; which said Foreign Jurisdiction is Pleaded for, by Archbishop Laud, Archbishop Bromhall, Bishop Peter Gunning, Bishop Sparrow, Bishop Sam. Parker, Dr. Heylin, Mr. Thorndike, Dr. Saywell, Dr. Beveridge, and worse by some others: All which by their own express words, with a full Confutation of their opinion, I have written ready for the Press, (and disputed it at large three days with Bishop Gunning in the presence of his chosen Witnesses Dr. Saywell and Dr. Beveridge. But Dr. Isaac Barrow against Thorndike hath irrefragably confuted all their Pretensions, notwithstanding Bishop Parker's vain Contradiction.