And these said, when you have displeased and provoked him to the utmost, he will be your King still.

* * * The more you offend him, the less you can trust him; and when mutual confidence is gone, a war is beginning.

* * * And if you conquer him, what the better are you?
He will still be King.

You can but force him to an agreement; and how quickly will he have power and advantage to violate that which he is forced to, and to be avenged on you all for the displeasure you have done him! He is ignorant of the advantages of a King that cannot foresee this.
This paragraph goes to make out a case in justification of the Regicides which Baxter would have found it difficult to answer.

Certainly a more complete exposure of the inconsistency of Baxter's own party cannot be.
For observe, that in case of an agreement with Charles all those classes, which afterwards formed the main strength of the Parliament and ultimately decided the contest in its favour, would have been politically inert, with little influence and no actual power,--I mean the Yeomanry, and the Citizens of London: while a vast majority of the Nobles and landed Gentry, who sooner or later must have become the majority in Parliament, went over to the King at once.