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

Of Holy-Days.

The Holy Doctrine, Lives and Sufferings of the Martyrs, and other Holy Men, hath been so great a Mercy to the Church, that for any thing I know, it is lawful to keep Anniversary Thanksgiving in remembrance of them, and to encourage the weak, and provoke them to constancy and imitation —No Christian should refuse that which is lawful, nor to join with the Church in Holy Exercises, on the days of thankful Commemoration of the Apostles and Martyrs, and Excellent Instruments of the Church, much less pertulently to work, and set open their Shops to the offence of others, but rather to persuade others to imitate their Holy Lives, to whom they give such honours. Chr. Direct. p. 167. Part. 3.

The Holy Doctrine, Lives and Sufferings of the Martyrs, and other Holy Men, hath been so great a Mercy to the Church, that for any thing I know, it is lawful to keep Anniversary Thanksgiving in remembrance of them, and to encourage the weak, and provoke them to constancy and imitation —No Christian should refuse that which is lawful, nor to joyn with the Church in Holy Exercises, on the days of thankful Commemoration of the Apostles and Martyrs, and Excellent Instruments of the Church, much less pertulently to work, and set open their Shops to the offence of others, but rather to perswade others to imitate their Holy Lives, to whom they give such honours. Chr. Direct. p. 167. Part. 3.