Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called…

XIII. Though I desired such a frame of Episcopal Government as Sir Edward Deering offered, or as since Archbishop Usher hath described as Primitive, yet out of the sense of the evil that Silencers and Persecutors ⟨p. 11⟩had done, I too much rejoiced when the Tidings came that the Prelacy was Voted down, not knowing then what would be set up, nor well what to desire: For neither Presbytery nor Independency had been then debated, or were well understood.

XIV. When I heard of the Scots Covenanting and Arming, and entering England, though I had not so much knowledge of their Cause, as should be a just satisfaction in so great a matter, yet I was in Heart glad of it, for the appearance that it showed, of enabling the Lords and Commons of England, to appear more boldly to plead for their Liberties and Laws. But I now think that a Suspension of my thoughts, as wanting Evidence, had been better.

XIV. VVhen I heard of the Scots Covenanting and Arming, and entering England, though I had not so much knowledge of their Cause, as should be a just satisfaction in so great a matter, yet I was in Heart glad of it, for the appearance that it shewed, of enabling the Lords and Commons of England, to appear more boldly to plead for their Liberties and Laws. But I now think that a Suspension of my thoughts, as wanting Evidence, had been better.

XV. When I heard of the tumultuous manner of the Apprentices in London, petitioning against Bishops, I disliked it, and the means that encouraged them, and the public reproach that was cast by the Rabble on those called Straffordians (such learned men as the Lord Falkland Lord Digby, &c.) yea, and the urging the King so much for his Execution: But I too much silenced my dislike.