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

§ 88. Accus. LXXI. [I have heard it credibly reported by some Reverend Persons there present that that Treaty might have had the desired effect of Concord had not Mr. B. so obstinately resisted.] Ans. That is, either those Reverend Persons would have amended their Impositions, if I had not Petitioned them to do it, and told them the necessity of it; or else that all the rest of the Commissioned Nonconformists would have Conformed to all the old faults which they protested that they judged sinful, and to all the worse that should after be added, if I had not been against it. These Reverend Persons were as Credible and Reverend as you are; as our present state in England tells us.

Then he tells us what the Bishop of Chester told Mr. Walton (Morley's Steward) what Bishop Sanderson said against me,] which is half false: Bishop Sanderson taking the Chair. I being by a multitude of Arguments from the words of the Text, proving against Dr. Gunning that Paul in Rom. 14, and 15. requireth us to receive to Communion such as differed in as great matters as those do that scruple kneeling at the Sacrament (which I told them I scruple not.) I once told Dr. Gunning ⟨p. 74⟩that he did petere principium in a case wherein Dr. Sanderson said that word was not in the common Logical sense applicable to his words: And the old Learned peevish Man added that I was perverse for saying it: And this was the heavy Charge.

Then he tells us what the Bishop of Chester told Mr. Walton (Morley's Steward) what Bishop Sanderson said against me,] which is half false: Bishop Sanderson taking the Chair. I being by a multitude of Arguments from the words of the Text, proving against Dr. Gunning that Paul in Rom. 14, and 15. requireth us to receive to Communion such as differed in as great matters as those do that scruple kneeling at the Sacrament (which I told them I scruple not.) I once told Dr. Gunning ⟨p. 74⟩