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

Holy Common-wealth, Thesis 240. It is necessary to the Churches Peace, that no private Congregations may be gathered, or Anti-Churches erected, without approbation or Toleration from the Magistrate. If private Assemblies be permitted promiscuously and unlimitedly, it will then be impossible to restrain Heresy and Impiety; yea, they may meet to plot against the Magistrate. And no Assemblies whatsoever, besides the Parish Churches, are to be allowed by the Magistrate.

Holy Common-wealth, Thesis 240. It is necessary to the Churches Peace, that no private Congregations may be gathered, or Anti-Churches erected, without approbation or Toleration from the Magistrate. If private Assemblies be permitted promiscuously and unlimitedly, it will then be impossible to restrain Heresie and Impiety; yea, they may meet to plot against the Magistrate. And no Assemblies whatsoever, besides the Parish Churches, are to be allowed by the Magistrate.

It is a dangerous thing,¹ to be ensnared in a Sect; it will, before you are aware, possess you with a feverish, sinful Zeal for the Opinions and Interest of that Sect; it will make you bold, in bitter Invectives and Censures, against those that differ from you; it will corrupt your Church-communion, and fill your very Prayers with Partiality, and Human Passions; it will secretly bring Malice, under the name of Zeal, into your minds and words. In a word, it is a secret, but deadly Enemy to ⟨p. 33⟩Christian Love and Peace. Let them that are wiser, and more Orthodox, and godly than others, show (as the Holy Ghost directeth them, James 3. 13, 14, &c.) out of a good conversation their works with meekness of wisdom: But if ye have bitter envying (or zeal) and strife in your hearts, Glory not, and lye not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.