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

XXXIX. When I wrote my Treatise of Episcopacy, I Calculated it to the Laudian Faction then prevalent, that called it self, the Church of England; and though I distinguished them that put down all the Parochial Pastors and Churches, and turned them all into mere Curates and Chapels (or parts Ecclesiarum infimarum) and so put down hundreds of Bishops and Churches under pretence of magnifying One; from the old Reformed Church of England that put not down these, but only sinfully fettered them, yet I did not so largely open the difference as I ought, which gave Mr. Lob occasion to write confidently for Separation.

XXXIX. When I wrote my Treatise of Episcopacy, I Calculated it to the Laudian Faction then prevalent, that called it self, the Church of England; and though I distinguished them that put down all the Parochial Pastors and Churches, and turned them all into meer Curates and Chappels (or partes Ecclesiarum infimarum) and so put down hundreds of Bishops and Churches under pretence of magnifying One; from the old Reformed Church of England that put not down these, but only sinfully fettered them, yet I did not so largely open the difference as I ought, which gave Mr. Lobb occasion to write confidently for Separation.

XL. When my Books against Conformity had irritated Dr. Stillingfleet to make me an instance of mischievous Separation (who had constantly heard and communicated with my Parish Churches, and for my private or occasional Preaching had the Bishops Licence approved under the hands of two the greatest Lawyers of England (the Lord Chief Justice Sanders, and the now Lord Chief Justice Polix•en) I doubt that I too provokingly took the advantage of his temerity, and confuted him in too provoking terms, not considering enough that a Man of great Learning, Labour, and Merit, and Name, hath a great interest of Reputation which he would not be insensible of: And if it were true as many without proof report, that his exasperation engaged first Mr. Morris, and after the second Author of the Mischief of Separation (whose writing against me is the transcript of the Character given by Christ,