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

We are endangered by divisions,¹ principally because the self-conceited part of Religious people will not be ruled by their Pastors, but must have their way, and will needs be rulers of the Church and them. But pleasing the ignorant Professors humours, is a Sin that shows us to be too humane and carnal, and hath always sad effects at last. It is a high degree of pride for persons of (ordinary) understandings,² to conclude, that almost all Christs Churches in the World for Thirteen Hundred Years at least, have offered such Worship to God, as that you are obliged to avoid it, and all their Communion in it; and that almost all the Catholic Church on Earth at this day is below your Communion, for using Forms. Mark, Is it not more of the Women and Apprentices that are of this mind, than of old experienced Christians?

We are indangered by divisions,¹ principally because the self-conceited part of Religious people will not be ruled by their Pastors, but must have their way, and will needs be rulers of the Church and them. But pleasing the ignorant Professors humors, is a Sin that shews us to be too humane and carnal, and hath always sad effects at last. It is a high degree of pride for persons of (ordinary) understandings,² to conclude, that almost all Christs Churches in the World for Thirteen Hundred Years at least, have offered such Worship to God, as that you are obliged to avoid it, and all their Communion in it; and that almost all the Catholick Church on Earth at this day is below your Communion, for using Forms. Mark, Is it not more of the Women and Apprentices that are of this mind, than of old experienced Christians?