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

XXV. I more repent that I once publicly defended it against a Writing of Sir Francis Nethersole, which he wrote against Mr. Vines, who had Preached for it. And that I did not more impartially consult with Sir Francis, and hear all that he had to say against it: For he was near us, and I Preached to him once at Kenilworth-Castle, where as a Prisoner he was liker the Master of that Pleasant Seat (under Colonel Needham) for he seemed purposely to force the Committee to Imprison him, by constant provoking them, who would fain have let him alone: But by that means he saved House-keeping, and scaped both Plundering ⟨p. 24⟩and Sequestring on both Sides, and secured his Estate, and his Person in a place of freedom and delight by Water and Land.

XXV. I more repent that I once publickly defended it against a Writing of Sir Francis Nethersole, which he wrote against Mr. Vines, who had Preached for it. And that I did not more impartially consult with Sir Francis, and hear all that he had to say against it: For he was near us, and I Preacht to him once at Kenelworth-Castle, where as a Prisoner he was liker the Master of that Pleasant Seat (under Colonel Needham) for he seemed purposely to force the Committee to Imprison him, by constant provoking them, who would fain have let him alone: But by that means he saved House-keeping, and scaped both Plundering ⟨p. 24⟩and Sequestring on both Sides, and secured his Estate, and his Person in a place of freedom and delight by Water and Land.

XXVI. And though I thought that a Parliament's Judgment was above all Lawyers, yet I repent that I had not more diligently consulted Lawyers on the other side: Though indeed I knew not well where to find them, the Lawyers of my Acquaintance being for the Parliament.