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Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters
Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters.
London : Printed and are to be sold by E. Whitlock, 1697
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Mr. RICHARD BAXTER's LAST LEGACY TO ALL Sober Dissenters. › Of Conventicles.
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P. 36. of the Defence. The interest of the Protestant Religion must be much kept up, by keeping up as much of Truth, Piety, and Reputation, as is possible, in the Parish Churches.
Sacril. Desertion, p. 92. In Parish-Churches, where all may hear the Parish Minister, I would not have you, without necessity, to preach the same hour of the day, but at some middle time, that you may not seem to vie with him for Auditors, nor to draw the People from him; but let them go with you to hear him, and after come to hear you.
Sacril. Desertion, p. 92. In Parish-Churches, where all may hear the Parish Minister, I would not have you, without necessity, to preach the same hour of the day, but at some middle time, that you may not seem to vye with him for Auditors, nor to draw the People from him; but let them go with you to hear him, and after come to hear you.
Saints Rest, p. 518. Do not meet together in opposition to the Public Meeting, nor yet to make a groundless Schism, or to separate from the Church whereof you are a Member; nor to destroy the old, that you may gather a new Church out of its ruins, as long as it hath the Essentials, and there is hope of reforming it. The great advantages that Satan hath got upon the Church, through the Sin of the Pastors in these days, is by Division; by this he hath promoted all the rest of his Designs. Our Divisions gratify the Papists greatly, hazard the Protestant Religion more than most of you seem to regard or believe; it advantageth Profaneness, and greatly hinders the Success of the Ministers; it pleaseth Satan, and builds up his Kingdom.
Saints Rest, p. 518. Do not meet together in opposition to the Publick Meeting, nor yet to make a groundless Schism, or to separate from the Church whereof you are a Member; nor to destroy the old, that you may gather a new Church out of its ruines, as long as it hath the Essentials, and there is hope of reforming it. The great advantages that Satan hath got upon the Church, through the Sin of the Pastors in these days, is by Division; by this he hath promoted all the rest of his Designs. Our Divisions gratifie the Papists greatly, hazard the Protestant Religion more than most of you seem to regard or believe; it advantageth Profaneness, and greatly hinders the Success of the Ministers; it pleaseth Satan, and builds up his Kingdom.