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

§ 85. Accus. LXVIII. He begins his second Chapter with a recital of my Profession, that 'tis Treason to fight against the King; and with this oft repeated Lye, that [I had the confidence to meet the Old King and his Armies in the Field.] This is his Diocesan History. I never met the King in the Field, nor ever saw an Army where he was, nor ever saw one of his Armies, till that of Goring's at Langport-Fight, where the Field War ended. Indeed, I came into the Quarters where they had gone before me, and I was so guilty of opposing them, as to be ashamed of the fame they left behind them. At South-•ederton the Gentleman where I quartered told me, that in his House they pricked their Fingers, and made the Blood run into the Cup, and drunk a Health to the Devil. At the Catherine-Wheel in Salisbury, the Neighbours reported, that some of them drinking a Health to the Devil, one of them was carried away, and never seen more: I went into the Room, and saw a new Standard and Glass where the Window was broken; but the Woman said, she was not in the Room, and knew not how it was done, whatever the Neighbours said of it, from the Soldiers that were frighted. But 'tis none of my purpose to intimate that they were all such, or most.

§ 85. Accus. LXVIII. He begins his second Chapter with a recital of my Profession, that 'tis Treason to fight against the King; and with this oft repeated Lye, that [I had the confidence to meet the Old King and his Armies in the Field.] This is his Diocesan History. I never met the King in the Field, nor ever saw an Army where he was, nor ever saw one of his Armies, till that of Goring's at Langport-Fight, where the Field War ended. Indeed, I came into the Quarters where they had gone before me, and I was so guilty of opposing them, as to be ashamed of the fame they left behind them. At South-•ederton the Gentleman where I quartered told me, that in his House they prick'd their Fingers, and made the Blood run into the Cup, and drunk a Health to the Devil. At the Catherine-Wheel in Salisbury, the Neighbours reported, that some of them drinking a Health to the Devil, one of them was carried away, and never seen more: I went into the Room, and saw a new Standard and Glass where the Window was broken; but the Woman said, she was not in the Room, and knew not how it was done, whatever the Neighbours said of it, from the Soldiers that were frighted. But 'tis none of my purpose to intimate that they were all such, or most.