Catholic Communion Doubly Defended by Dr Owen, Postscript
POST-SCRIPT.
REader, the sight of a Book of one Mr. Edw. Petit, called, Visions of Government, calls me to tell you, that all his reviliu… language needs no reply, or confutation: But his story about Major Iennings, how I stood by while he was wounded, and encouraged it, and took the Meddal from about his neck is already by me confuted before my Defence of the History of Councils: which I have made known to Mr. L'Estrange, and Major Iennings. And though the Rector of Burton, in the Life of Dr. Heylin, publish it with Major Iennings affirmation, I do here again, as in the presence of God, take a voluntary Oath, that it is false; and that I was not near him at that time, nor never saw the man in my life (unless I might see a man unknowingly in a Congretion, or distant croud, nor did I see any wound him, nor take any Meddal of him: But that in the house where I was, I heard the Soldiers tell how they wounded, stript him, and took his Meddal (laughing at a silly Soldier that called it a Crucifix:) And the man that took it, offering it to Sale, I gave him eighteen pence for it, and some years after sent it Major Iennings freely; which it seems made him think, and rashly affirm falsly, that it was I that took it from him. As for the rest of the Diabolism of that Book, and his, and others uncessant charges from one Book retracted so many years ago, and accused by my self, consenting to the Oxford men that burnt it, it doth but tell the world, what furious, implacable wrath in the engaged Enemies of Love and Peace can do, and sheweth itself more effectually then any other can. (As do three others that have taken the like course.)
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End of the text · Richard Baxter, Catholic Communion Doubly Defended by Dr Owen (1684)