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

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.

It is a dangerous thing,¹ to be ensnared in a Sect; it will, before you are aware, possess you with a feaverish, 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, shew (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, devillish.

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