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

If I must Repent that I take not all the old Parliaments, and all the Bishops in Queen Elizabeths days to be no Church Protestants; if I must Repent for taking Jewel, Bishop Bilson, Ri. Hooker, and his Friend Sir Edwin Sandyes for Church Protestants, and Repent for believing all Rushworth's Collections, all Whitlock's Memoirs, all Sir Simon Dues, and Dr. Fuller's Church History, and the Volumes of M. S. Parliament Speeches, if I must take this King and Parliament, and all the Bishops and Clergy that Conform to them, to be no Protestants of the Church of England, because they have made a Law declaring it to be the Rights and Liberties of the people, to be governed by Law, and not by Arbitrary Prerogative, and have asserted what the old Parliaments claimed, I must then heinously dishonour the Church of England, and Repent that I am a Man.

If I must Repent that I take not all the old Parliaments, and all the Bishops in Queen Elizabeths days to be no Church Protestants; if I must Repent for taking Jewel, Bishop Bilson, Ri. Hooker, and his Friend Sir Edwin Sandyes for Church Protestants, and Repent for believing all Rushworth's Collections, all Whitlock's Memoirs, all Sir Simon Dewes, and Dr. Fuller's Church History, and the Volumes of M. S. Parliament Speeches, if I must take this King and Parliament, and all the Bishops and Clergy that Conform to them, to be no Protestants of the Church of England, because they have made a Law declaring it to be the Rights and Liberties of the people, to be governed by Law, and not by Arbitrary Prerogative, and have asserted what the old Parliaments claimed, I must then heinously dishonour the Church of England, and Repent that I am a Man.

§ 6. He falsely feigneth me to say that the Bishops began the War, because I said it began between the two Episcopal Parties, those that were of Archbishop Abbot's and the old Reformers way, and those that were for Land's Innovations and Persecutions: And I should justly be noted for vain and tedious if I would stand to answer all his talk about the Provocations: He that will read Whitlock may have full satisfaction; and particularly find that the Parliament voted a Diocesan in every County, when they began to reform: And were they not then for Episcopacy?