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A26982	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.; Penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called The second part of the mischiefs of separation. 1691	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Minimis, Cantianus D.	1691 (1691)	Wing B1341; ESTC R13470	98,267	107

were put to draw up Additional Forms which we did in the very Words of Scripture And though some called it The Reformed Liturgy because it seemeth an entire Frame yet it is falsely said that we would have that or none for we only offered it to the Bishop's Examination which they would never do And even this Accuser hath nothing that I find against it but that I confess it was hastily drawn up in eight Days and therefore must needs be imperfect and deserve a Review And so it is our Crime that we take not their three Books to be all such Effects of Infallibility as to have no one Fault contrary to God's Word and yet to confess our own though in the Words of Scripture to be the Work of defectible imperfect Men and therefore needing a perfecting Review Humility and not Subscribing to an Arrogant Claim of their Indefectibility is our great Crime § 123. III. They yet more dangerously deceive their Believers persuading them That we appropriate Godliness and serious Religion to our Extemporate Praying and to the Opposition to Bishops Liturgy and Conformity and that we falsely dishonour their Church by representing their Candidates and Clergy to be more unable Preachers or more ungodly Livers than the Nonconforming Ministers and Candidates and their Parish-Flocks to be more unqualified for Church-Communion and a more irregular Church than such as we have desired in our Motions for Reforming-Concord Whereas say they we have the best Clergy and Church in all the World To which I say 1. That we have largely enough in Folio oft told the World what it is we account and call Godliness even the making and keeping the Baptismal Covenant Believing willing and living according to the Creed Lord's Prayer and Law of Christ We offered them a Liturgy we owned all that was good in theirs We know that Prayers from a Book as from a Habit are accepted if they come from a penitent believing and obedient Soul and that the Prayers of ungodly Hypocrites are unacceptable to God whether with a Book or without 2. And we love and honour Conformable Ministers and People that are Christians indeed and shew it by serious practice of Christianity And we are very thankful to God that England hath had so many such that were conformable long ago and we doubt not hath many such yet even under the new and much worse Conformity We know not that Nation that hath more excellent Men than many of the Bishops were in Queen Elizabeth's Time and than many Divines since have been such as Robert Bolton Dr. Presion Dr. Sibs Mr. Scudder Mr. Wheatley Mr. Dyke Dr. Taylor Mr. Downham Dr. Stoughton Dr. Gouge Mr. Gataker Dr Willet Dr. Whitaker Dr. Field Archbishop Usher Bishop Downam Bishop Beadle c. Oh how many of such excellent Men hath this Land been blessed with And the pious Nonconformists were of the same Spirit though not in all things of the same Opinions I have lately told you in a small Book called CAN and ABEL what are the things that make the difference which hath my chief Regard But such Conformists as I have named have since Laud's ●ays with many gone under the name of Conformable Puritans and by this Accuser are reproached by the Name of Passive Conformists because they had rather the Ceremonies and needless Subscriptions were forborn than able faithful Preachers silenced The Prejudice that he saith I had from my Youth against the Bishops and Clergy was only against Ungodliness and Malignity Is it like that I was against the pious Conformists when I was tutored by them heard them and was of their Judgment But can we not even among Conformists distinguish the Malicious Ungodly Worldly from holy Men of Love and Peace § 124. If Posterity and Strangers must be deluded by such false Historians as this that tell them the serious Godly Ministers and People were Schismaticks and Rogues and the Haters of serious Religion were the most Religious who can help it They talk so now to those that live among both Parties And the debauched sensual Youth and the covetous and ambitious Worldlings seem partly to believe them But so do not the sober Sort that daily see the Confutation of their Malice § 125. For my own part I will conclude That if I had not known that sort of serious Godly Men whom the present Malignants now render odious by their Calumnies I fear I should not have sincerely believed in Jesus Christ and that his Gospel is true For the rest both Ministers and Laity whom I ever knew shewed no serious ●elief of that Christian Faith which they professed Here and there there was a civil Person by Temper and Education but commonly not a serious Word could I hear from their Mouths about God or our Redeemer and the Spirit 's sanctifying Works or of Death and Judgment and the Life to come save in the Pulpit nor did they love to hear any such from others but their Talk and whole Conversation was about the World or common worldly Things and as Mr. Bolton largely describeth them any Godly serious Discourse did but disgust them and marr their Mirth and make them revile the Speakers as Puritaus Hypocrites or some such Names Few did I know of them that excelled Cicero Sencca or equalled Ant●nine Epictetus Plutarch And if Christ made Christians no better than the Philosophers how could I think better of him than of them Or trust that Physician that cureth none I thank God that I have found more of the Effects of his Saving Grace than the ordinary sort and Members of the described Church-Party which these Men extol did ever shew me Note The Words in the Epistle and pag. 84. about School Masters are thse and no otherwise to be understood That no indulged Persons under severe Penalties to breed up Scholars or to teach Gentlemen's Sons University-Learning because this may be justly looked on as a Design to propagate Schism to Posterity and to lay a Foundation for the Disturbance of future Generations Dr. Stillingfleet ' s Unreasonableness of Separation Preface pag. 88. How many excellent Preachers hath God raised by this Way which he would have hinder'd by severe Penalties And how many Souls converted and confirmed by them A Catalogue of Mr. Richard Baxter's Books sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns near Mercers Chapel at the Lower End of Cheapside Folio 1. Mr. Baxter's CHRISTIAN DIRECTORY Or Cases of Conscience 2. Catholick Theology 3. Methodus Theologiae Quarto 4. Saints Everlasting Rest 5. Church-History 6. History of Councils Second Part. 7. His Treatise of Episcopacy 8. Annotations on the New Testament 9. Life of Faith 10. Naked Popery 11. Apology for Nonconformists 12. Answer to Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock 13. Second Defence of Nonconformists against Dr. Stillingfleet 14. Catholick Communion In Six several Controversies 15. Which is the True Church 16. Moral Prognostication 17. Search for English Schismaticks 18. Farewell-Sermon 19. Alderman Ashurst's Funeral-Sermon 20. Mr. John Corbet's Funeral-Sermon Octavo 21. Treatise of Self-denial 22. His Catechism for Families Or Teacher of Householders 23. Spiritual Comfort In Thirty two Directions 24. Directions for Weak Distemper'd Christians 25. Mr. Baxter's Treatise of Justification Imputation of Righteousness and Imputation of our Parents Sins against the Accusations of Dr. Tully 26. A full and easie Satisfaction which is the true and safe Religion 27. The Cure of Church-Divisions 28. The Certainty of Christianity without Popery 29. A Key for Catholicks to open the Jugling of the Jesuite 30 31. Two Treatises of Death and Judgment 32. The Defence of the Nonconformists Plea for Peace Or An Account of the Matter of their Nonconformity Against Mr. J. Cheyny's Answer 33. A Defence of the Principles of Love 34. More Reasons for Infants Church-Membership In Answer to Mr. Tombs 35. Immortality of the Soul 36. More Reasons for the Christian Religion 37 38. Two Disputations of Original Sin 39. Mr. Stubbs his Funeral-Sermon These Under-written are lately Printed Quarto 1. Mr. Baxter's ENglish Nonconformity sa under King Charles II. and King James II. truly Stated and Argued 2. A Treatise of Knowledge and Love compared In two Parts I. Of falsly pretended Knowledge II. Of true saving Knowledge and Love 3. The Glorious Kingdom of Christ described and clearly vindicated 4. A Reply to Mr. Thomas Beverly's Answer to my Reasons against his Doctrine of the Thousand Years Middle Kingdom and Conversion of the Jews 5. Of National Churches their Description Institution Use Preservation Danger Maladies and Cure partly applied to England 6. Church-Concord Containing I. A Dissuasive from unnecessary Divisions and Separation and the real Concord of the moderate Independents with the Presbyterians instanced in Ten seeming Differences II. The Terms necessary for Concord amongst all true Churches and Christians * Said to be one Parker a Lawyer ☞ ☞ * See Mr. Clarksons proofs See Dr. Sherlock's Defence Hath not Bishop Stillingfleet himself taken K. William's Oath * So Dr. Ashton prosessed as before God that it is 〈…〉 Covetousness that we conform not