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

We (the Commissioners 1663.)¹ all thought a Liturgy lawful, and divers Learned and Reverend Nonconformists of London met to consider how far it was their duty, or lawful to Communicate with the Parish Churches, where they lived, in the Liturgy and Sacrament, and I proved four Propositions: 1. That it is lawful to use a Form: 2. That it is lawful to join with some Parish Churches in the use of the Liturgy: 3. That it is lawful to join with some Parish Churches in the Lord's Supper: 4. That it is to some a duty to join with some Parish Churches three times a year in the Lord's Supper: and none of the Brethren seemed to dissent, but took the Reasons to be valid.

We (the Commissioners 1663.)¹ all thought a Liturgy lawful, and divers Learned and Reverend Nonconformists of London met to consider how far it was their duty, or lawful to Communicate with the Parish Churches, where they lived, in the Liturgy and Sacrament, and I proved four Propositions: 1. That it is lawful to use a Form: 2. That it is lawful to joyn with some Parish Churches in the use of the Liturgy: 3. That it is lawful to joyn with some Parish Churches in the Lord's Supper: 4. That it is to some a duty to joyn with some Parish Churches three times a year in the Lord's Supper: and none of the Brethren seemed to dissent, but took the Reasons to be valid.

1. 1Defence, p. 38.

Were I in Armenia, ¹Abyssinia, or among the Greeks, I would join in a much more defective Form than our Liturgy, rather than none. And this is the judgment of many New-England Ministers, conform to the old Non-conformists, who did some of them read the Common Prayer, and the most of them judged it lawful to join in it, or else Mr. Hildersham, Mr. Richard Rogers, &c. would not write so earnestly for coming to the beginning,