Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

so many of them have with great ingenuity and sorrow confessed, That they were too easily mislead by misinformation and prejudice, into some disesteem of it, as if it had too much complied with the Church of Rome; whereas they now acknowledge it to be the best fence God hath yet raised against Popery in the World: And we are persuaded they do with great Zeal wish it restored to its old Dignity and Veneration. When we were in Holland, we were attended by many Grave and Learned Ministers from hence, who were looked upon as the most able and principal Assertors of the Presbyterian Opinions, with whom we had as much Conference as the multitude of Affairs, which were then upon us, would permit us to have: and to our great Satisfaction and Comfort, found them Persons full of Affection to us, of Zeal for the Peace of the Church and State; and neither Enemies (as they have been given out to be) of Episcopacy or Liturgy; but modestly to desire such Alterations in either, as without shaking Foundations, might best allay the present Distempers, which the Indisposition of the Times, and the Tenderness of some Mens Consciences had contracted. For the better doing whereof, we intended upon our first Arrival in this Kingdom, to call a Synod of Divines, as the most proper Expedient to provide a proper Remedy for all those Differences and Dissatisfactions which had or should arise in Matters of Religion: and in the mean time we published in our Declaration from Breda, A Liberty to tender Consciences, and that no man should be disquieted or called in question for differences of Opinion in Matters of Religion, which do not disturb the Peace of the Kingdom; and that we shall be ready to consent to such an Act of Parliament as shall upon mature deliberation be offered to us, for the full granting that Indulgence. Whilst we continued in this Temper of Mind and Resolution, and have so far complied with the Persuasion of particular Persons, and the Distemper of the Time, as to be contented with the Exercise of our Religion in our own Chapel, according to the constant Practice and Laws established, without enjoining that Practice, and the Observation of those Laws in the Churches of the Kingdom, in which we have undergone the Censure of many, as if we were without that Zeal for the Church which we ought to have, and which by God's Grace we shall always retain;

so many of them have with great ingenuity and sorrow confessed, That they were too easily mislead by misinformation and prejudice, into some disesteem of it, as if it had too much complyed with the Church of Rome; whereas they now acknowledge it to be the best fence God hath yet raised against Popery in the World: And we are perswaded they do with great Zeal wish it restored to its old Dignity and Veneration. When we were in Holland, we were attended by many Grave and Learned Ministers from hence, who were looked upon as the most able and principal Assertors of the Presbyterian Opinions, with whom we had as much Conference as the multitude of Affairs, which were then upon us, would permit us to have: and to our great Satisfaction and Comfort, found them Persons full of Affection to us, of Zeal for the Peace of the Church and State; and neither Enemies (as they have been given out to be) of Episcopacy or Liturgy; but modestly to desire such Alterations in either, as without shaking Foundations, might best allay the present Distempers, which the Indisposition of the Times, and the Tenderness of some Mens Consciences had contracted. For the better doing whereof, we intended upon our first Arrival in this Kingdom, to call a Synod of Divines, as the most proper Expedient to provide a proper Remedy for all those Differences and Dissatisfactions which had or should arise in Matters of Religion: and in the mean time we published in our Declaration from Breda, A Liberty to tender Consciences, and that no man should be disquieted or called in question for differences of Opinion in Matters of Religion, which do not disturb the Peace of the Kingdom; and that we shall be ready to consent to such an Act of Parliament as shall upon mature deliberation be offered to us, for the full granting that Indulgence. Whilst we continued in this Temper of Mind and Resolution, and have so far complyed with the Perswasion of particular Persons, and the Distemper of the Time, as to be contented with the Exercise of our Religion in our own Chappel, according to the constant Practice and Laws established, without enjoyning that Practice, and the Observation of those Laws in the Churches of the Kingdom, in which we have undergone the Censure of many, as if we were without that Zeal for the Church which we ought to have, and which by God's Grace we shall always retain;