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

XX. I had not been long at home after my return, but the War began in that Country, by the Kings and Parliaments contending for the Militia; and quickly after the first Soldiers that ever I saw raised, was a Troop from Herefordshire raised by Sir W. Crofts, under his Brother James, Dr. Herbert Crofts the other Brother (now Bishop of Hereford) being Chaplain, and the Dr. desiring my Pulpit, I heard him Preach an Eloquent Sermon against the Parliament, as Enemies to the King and Peace: And Sir William Crofts and Sir Francis Nethersoke a little before meeting there for Consultation, Sir Francis spoke to me to avoid all War against the King, (seeming himself to be against the War on both sides,) telling me by his observations in the Palatinate Wars how little they that begin fore-know of the end: I had no thoughts of meddling with War, and so only gave him the hearing. but I have oft since repented that I had not drawn out more of his Reasons, to have helped my Judgment to a Resolution; especially since I read (in Dr. W. Bates's Vitae virorum illustrium) his words in his Laudatio fenebris of Prince Henry's Death, when he was Orator of Cambridge; in which he seemeth to have been Prophetical, as England felt by sad Experience: I will transcribe part of his Prophecy, Page 412.

XX. I had not been long at home after my return, but the War began in that Countrey, by the Kings and Parliaments contending for the Militia; and quickly after the first Soldiers that ever I saw raised, was a Troop from Herefordshire raised by Sir W. Crofts, under his Brother James, Dr. Herbert Crofts the other Brother (now Bishop of Hereford) being Chaplain, and the Dr. desiring my Pulpit, I heard him Preach an Eloquent Sermon against the Parliament, as Enemies to the King and Peace: And Sir William Crofts and Sir Francis Nethersoke a little before meeting there for Consultation, Sir Francis spoke to me to avoid all War against the King, (seeming himself to be against the War on both sides,) telling me by his observations in the Palatinate Wars how little they that begin fore-know of the end: I had no thoughts of medling with War, and so only gave him the hearing. but I have oft since repented that I had not drawn out more of his Reasons, to have help'd my Judgment to a Resolution; especially since I read (in Dr. W. Bates's Vitae virorum illustrium) his words in his Laudatio fenebris of Prince Henry's Death, when he was Orator of Cambridge; in which he seemeth to have been Prophetical, as England felt by sad Experience: I will transcribe part of his Prophesie, Page 412.