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

Pag. 142, 143. Mr. Baxter shows the conveniences and inconveniences, both of see and prescribed Prayers; and adds, My own judgment is, that somewhat of both ways joined together will best obviate the inconveniences of both, though by this I cross the conceits of prejudiced Men on both extremes; I think I cross not the judgment of the Church of England, which alloweth free Prayers in the Pulpit, and at the Visitation of the Sick—Nor of the Famous Non conformists, Cartwright, ⟨p. 38⟩Hildersham, Greenham, Amisius, Perkins, Bains, &c. Mr. Cartwright all the time that he lived abroad, used the same Form before Sermon and after, and read Prayers in the Church, and concluded with the Lords Prayer.

Pag. 142, 143. Mr. Baxter shews the conveniencies and inconveniencies, both of see and prescribed Prayers; and adds, My own judgment is, that somewhat of both ways joyned together will best obviate the inconveniencies of both, though by this I cross the conceits of prejudiced Men on both extremes; I think I cross not the judgment of the Church of England, which alloweth free Prayers in the Pulpit, and at the Visitation of the Sick—Nor of the Famous Non conformists, Cartwright, ⟨p. 38⟩Hildersham, Greenham, Amisius, Perkins, Bains, &c. Mr. Cartwright all the time that he lived abroad, used the same Form before Sermon and after, and read Prayers in the Church, and concluded with the Lords Prayer.

§. 4. Pag. 102. Of, Mr. Baxter's life, Part 1. Under pretence of the purity of their Churches, the Separatists set themselves against the same Men, that the Drunkards and Swearers set against, doing what they could to make them odious, and put them down, only they did it more profanely than the Profane, in saying, Let the Lord be glorified; let the Gospel be propagated; abusing Sacred Scripture to their purpose. All this began in unwarrantable Separations, and too much aggravating the faults of the Churches, and Common People, and Common-Prayer-Book, and Ministry, which because they thought they needed amendments it required their obstinate Separation, and allowed them to make odious any thing that was amiss and if any Man had rebuked them for making it more faulty than it was, they called him a pleader for Antichrist and Baal, and every error in the mode of Worship was Idolatry, Popery, Antichristianism, Superstition, Will-worship, &c. When many of their own Prayers were full of Carnal Passion, Faction, Disorder, vain Repetitions, unsound and loathsome Expressions, and their Doctrine full of Errors and Confusion.