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

§. 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.

§. 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 eror 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 Confussion.

§ 5. Pag. 169. Part. 3. Of B's Life. I wrote a Book called Cain and Abel, intending a third Part, to tell Dissenters, why I went to the Parish Church, and Communicated; and why they should not suffer as Separatists, least they suffer as Evil doers; which a Bookseller importuned me to let him Print, but for Reasons then given, I delayed it; but at last consented to publish the Reasons of my Communicating in the Parish Churches, and against Separations: But a Manuscript of Dr. Owen's, containing Twelve Arguments against joining with the Liturgy in Public Churches was sent me, which I answered, whereupon a swarm of Revilers poured out their keenest Censures whom I answered. Another said, that my Treatise of Episcopacy fully proved the duty of Separation; whereupon I explained that Treatise, and all these things together I Published in a Treatise in defence of Catholic Communion, to which I refer such as desire farther Satisfaction.