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

§ 7. I shall name but one Passage more on this Head, in ⟨p. 39⟩his Defence of the Principles of Love. pag. 88. The Covenant (he saith) bindeth us to Reformation according to God's Word, and the Example of the best Reformed Churches: But to prefer no Public Worship, or a worse before the Liturgy, is Deformation and Profaneness; and it is greater Reformation to prefer the Liturgy before none, than to prefer Extemporate Public Worship before the Liturgy; for all the Reformed Churches in Christendom do commonly profess to hold Communion with the English Churches in the Liturgy, if they come among us where it is used, so that it seems in Mr. Baxter's Judgment a breach of the Covenant to prefer no Public Worship before the Liturgy, or to refuse Occasional Communion in the use of the Liturgy, as if it were unlawful, when in Mr. B's as well as in the Judgment of all the Reformed Churches, it is to be preferred to Extemporate Public Worsip.

§ 7. I shall name but one Passage more on this Head, in ⟨p. 39⟩his Defence of the Principles of Love. pag. 88. The Covenant (he saith) bindeth us to Reformation according to God's Word, and the Example of the best Reformed Churches: But to prefer no Publick Worship, or a worse before the Liturgy, is Deformation and Profaneness; and it is greater Reformation to prefer the Liturgy before none, than to prefer Extemporate Publick Worship before the Liturgy; for all the Reformed Churches in Christendom do commonly profess to hold Communion with the English Churches in the Liturgy, if they come among us where it is used, so that it seems in Mr. Baxter's Judgment a breach of the Covenant to prefer no Publick Worship before the Liturgy, or to refuse Occasional Communion in the use of the Liturgy, as if it were unlawful, when in Mr. B's as well as in the Judgment of all the Reformed Churches, it is to be preferred to Extemporate Publick Worsip.

My Opinion as to Liturgy in general,¹