A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…

3. And I do Repent that I had not more impartially and diligently consulted with the best Lawyers that were against the Parliaments Cause (For I knew of no Controversy in Divinity about it, but in Politics and Law;) and that I did not use all possible means of full acquaintance with the Case. And that for a little while the Authority of such Writers as Mr. Rich. Hooker lib. 1. Eccles. Polit. and Bishop Bilson, and other Episcopal Divines did too much sway my judgement toward the Principles of Popular Power; And seeing the Parliament, Episcopal, and Erastian, and not hearing when the Wars began of two Presbyterians among them all, nor among all their Lord Lieutenants, Generals, Major Generals, or Colonels, till long after, I was the easilyer drawn to think that Hookers Political Principles had been commonly received by all; which ⟨p. 53⟩I discerned soon after upon stricter enquiry, to be unsound, and have my self written a Confutation of them, ready for the Press many years ago.

3. And I do Repent that I had not more impartially and diligently consulted with the best Lawyers that were against the Parliaments Cause (For I knew of no Controversie in Divinity about it, but in Politicks and Law;) and that I did not use all possible means of full acquaintance with the Case. And that for a little while the Authority of such Writers as Mr. Rich. Hooker lib. 1. Eccles. Polit. and Bishop Bilson, and other Episcopal Divines did too much sway my judgement toward the Principles of Popular Power; And seeing the Parliament, Episcopal, and Erastian, and not hearing when the Wars began of two Presbyterians among them all, nor among all their Lord Lieutenants, Generalls, Major Generalls, or Colonells, till long after, I was the easilyer drawn to think that Hookers Political Principles had been commonly received by all; which ⟨p. 53⟩I discerned soon after upon stricter enquiry, to be unsound, and have my self written a Confutation of them, ready for the Press many years ago.

4. And all the rest of my sin in this business, which I know not of particularly, I do Implicitly and Generally Repent of; and daily beg of God (as I have done these twenty four years and more) to give me a particular Conviction of them, and not to suffer me to live or dye in any impenitence, but so far to acquaint me with all my great and public sins, that I may openly confess them, and give others warning to avoid the like. This is the Repentance, which upon your invitation I profess.