Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters

I did not vary from my most early Opinion concerning these things, for in my Epistle to the Saints Rest, I gave the same Admonition to my Flock at Kidderminster in these words. I charge you in Christ's name, as you will answer it when we shall meet at Judgment, that you faithfully and constantly practise these Directions—Above all, see that ye be followers of Peace and Unity in the Church, and among your selves. I differ from many in several things of considerable moment, yet if I should zealously press my judgment on others so as to disturb the Peace of the Church, and separate from my Brethren, I should fear least I should prove a Firebrand in Hell, for being a Firebrand in the Church: And for all the interest I have in your Judgments and Affections, I charge you, that if God should give me up to any Factious Church-rendering course, that you forsake me, and follow me not a step, believe not those to be Friends of the Church, who would cure her by cutting her Throat.

I did not vary from my most early Opinion concerning these things, for in my Epistle to the Saints Rest, I gave the same Admonition to my Flock at Kidderminister in these words. I charge you in Christ's name, as you will answer it when we shall meet at Judgment, that you faithfully and constantly practise these Directions—Above all, see that ye be followers of Peace and Vnity in the Church, and among your selves. I differ from many in several things of considerable moment, yet if I should zealously press my judgment on others so as to disturb the Peace of the Church, and separate from my Brethren, I should fear least I should prove a Firebrand in Hell, for being a Firebrand in the Church: And for all the interest I have in your Judgments and Affections, I charge you, that if God should give me up to any Factious Church-rendring course, that you forsake me, and follow me not a step, believe not those to be Friends of the Church, who would cure her by cutting her Throat.

Upon writing my Cure of Church Divisions, Mr. Bagshaw, p. 152. Published other Invectives against me, as that one worthy of credit told him, that the Learned and Judicious Mr. Herle, having read that Book, said, That it had been better for the Church of God, if Mr. Baxter's Friends had never sent him to School, and that Mr. Cawdry had a like opinion of that Book, and that another Person as knowing in the Mystery of Godliness, as either of them, told a Friend of his, that notwithstanding the noise about Mr. Baxter, he would end in Flesh and Blood. But Mr. Baxter was well fortified against these obloquies, having been surfeited, as he says, with humane Applause.