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

Bampfield, Sir William Constable, (after turned Independent) yea Col. Hampden was no Separatist from the Parish Churches; but a sober Protestant. I have named the rest elsewhere. I heard enough of Col. Sandyes before he was mortally wounded to tell me that he was no Puritan.

Bampfield, Sir William Constable, (after turn'd Independant) yea Col. Hampden was no Separatist from the Parish Churches; but a sober Protestant. I have named the rest elsewhere. I heard enough of Col. Sandyes before he was mortally wounded to tell me that he was no Puritane.

And as for the Major Generals of the several Counties, the Lord Ferdinando Fairfax, the Lord Willoughby of Parham, the Earl of Stamford, Sir John Gel, Sir Tho. Middleton, Col. Mitton, Col. Morgan, Col. Massey, Sir William Waller, the Earl of Denbigh, Col. Langhorne, and Col. Poyer, were all conformable to Episcopacy and Parochial Worship; and some of them so Zealous for the Liturgy and Diocesans that they would not hear a Man as a Minister that had not Episcopal Ordination. The Archbishop of York Williams was one of them, and was not he for Episcopacy?

And as for the Major Generals of the several Counties, the Lord Ferdinando Fairfax, the Lord Willoughby of Parham, the Earl of Stampford, Sir John Gell, Sir Tho. Middleton, Col. Mitton, Col. Morgan, Col. Massey, Sir William Waller, the Earl of Denbigh, Col. Langhorne, and Col. Poyer, were all conformable to Episcopacy and Parochial Worship; and some of them so Zealous for the Liturgy and Diocesanes that they would not hear a Man as a Minister that had not Episcopal Ordination. The Archbishop of York Williams was one of them, and was not he for Episcopacy?

§ 5. But the Accuser confuteth all this by telling us, that it began in King James days between the Regians and the Republicans, between