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

But indeed when the Sectaries got dominion, many Anabaptists and Self conceited Novices set up themselves for Preachers where they could get Hearers; but the sober godly people kept so much Concord and Integrity, that these others were but here and there, and that as a disgraced broken Sect, as the Quakers be among us now. But Harrison took the advantage of the ignorance and badness of the Parish Ministers in Wales, to set up Itinerant Anabaptists and Separatists in many places.

This is the truth of the Consequents about Religion: And it fell out that the Cromwellians and Anabaptists professing more Zeal for Godliness than ordinary, did much of their work by suppressing sin and profaneness, ⟨p. 64⟩and countenancing Godliness: Which hath taught us to wish that of two Evils, rather Hypocrisy than Malignity may be in power. It's better Godliness be promoted for evil Ends, than hated and persecuted.

This is the truth of the Consequents about Religion: And it fell out that the Cromwellians and Anabaptists professing more Zeal for Godliness than ordinary, did much of their work by suppressing sin and profaneness, ⟨p. 64⟩and countenancing Godliness: Which hath taught us to wish that of two Evils, rather Hypocrisie than Malignity may be in power. It's better Godliness be promoted for evil Ends, than hated and persecuted.

68. Whereas therefore the Diocesan Church of England exclusive of all Nonconformists, and such as these Men accuse, is so oft called, The best Church in the World: It must mean that it is best in Constitution and Laws, or in the Men that are Ministers and Members. If the first be their meaning, 1. The best Laws without the best Men never make the best Church. 2. Is one sole Bishop over a Thousand or many Hundred Parishes without any Bishop or Pastoral Church under him a better Form of Government, than the contrary that was continued for many hundred years?