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

Do not meet together in opposition to the public meeting,¹ nor at the time of public Worship, nor yet to make a groundless Schism, or to separate from the Church, whereof you are Members, nor to destroy the old, that you may gather a new Church out of its Ruins, as long as it hath the Essentials, and there is hope of reforming it; nor yet would I have you forward to vent your own supposed gifts and parts in teaching, where there is no necessity of it; nor as a separated Church, but as a part of the Church more diligent than the rest in redeeming time. Let all your private meetings be in subordination to the public, and by the approbation and consent of your Spiritual guides, Remembering them which have the rule over you, Heb. 13. 7, 8, 9. And I beseech you Brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the Doctrine which you have learned and avoid them, &c. Rom. 16. 17, 18. I would you would ponder every one of these words, for they are the precious advice of the Spirit of God, and necessary now as well as then.

Do not meet together in opposition to the publick meeting,¹ nor at the time of publick Worship, nor yet to make a groundless Schism, or to separate from the Church, whereof you are Members, nor to destroy the old, that you may gather a new Church out of its Ruines, as long as it hath the Essentials, and there is hope of reforming it; nor yet would I have you forward to vent your own supposed gifts and parts in teaching, where there is no necessity of it; nor as a separated Church, but as a part of the Church more diligent than the rest in redeeming time. Let all your private meetings be in subordination to the publick, and by the approbation and consent of your Spiritual guides, Remembring them which have the rule over you, Heb. 13. 7, 8, 9. And I beseech you Brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the Doctrine which you have learned and avoid them, &c. Rom. 16. 17, 18. I would you would ponder every one of these words, for they are the precious advice of the Spirit of God, and necessary now as well as then.