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

§ 58. Accus. XLV. [That ever since it hath been my business to destroy the best Established Church in the World. Ans. By desiring them not to set up a Foreign Jurisdiction which the Kingdom is Sworn against. And by humble Petitioning them not to silence all the Ministers of England conditionally, and two thousand of the most Faithful actually in one day: By striving for Concord as for Life, upon terms once granted by the King in his Gracious Declaration, and after on lower terms consented to by Bishop Wilkins, Dr. Burton, Judge Hale, and I think by Dr. Tillotson, and Dr. Stillingfleet: I never motioned ⟨p. 57⟩the alienation of one Farthing of the Revenues of the Bishops or Deans; nor spake against their Baronies, Parliament Place and Power, […] nor against their vast Dioceses, so they would not put down the Inferior Pastoral Office and Churches, and make Lay Civilians Usurpers of the Keys: Thus I sought to destroy the best Church in the World. Locusts are famished if they may not destroy our Trees and Fruit, and Pikes if they may not devour all the lesser Fish: All Human's Wealth and Honour is nothing to him if Mordecai be not hanged. This Envy consumeth them, if we lye not still with Rogues in Goals.

§ 58. Accus. XLV. [That ever since it hath been my business to destroy the best Established Church in the World. Ans. By desiring them not to set up a Forreign Jurisdiction which the Kingdom is Sworn against. And by humble Petitioning them not to silence all the Ministers of England conditionally, and two thousand of the most Faithful actually in one day: By striving for Concord as for Life, upon terms once granted by the King in his Gracious Declaration, and after on lower terms consented to by Bishop Wilkins, Dr. Burton, Judge Hale, and I think by Dr. Tillotson, and Dr. Stillingfleet: I never motioned ⟨p. 57⟩the alienation of one Farthing of the Revenues of the Bishops or Deans; nor spake against their Baronies, Parliament Place and Power, 〈…〉 nor against their vast Diocesses, so they would not put down the Inferiour Pastoral Office and Churches, and make Lay Civilians Usurpers of the Keys: Thus I sought to destroy the best Church in the World. Locusts are famished if they may not destroy our Trees and Fruit, and Pikes if they may not devour all the lesser Fish: All Human's Wealth and Honour is nothing to him if Mordecai be not hanged. This Envy consumeth them, if we lye not still with Rogues in Goals.