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

As to Popery;¹ The interest of the Protestant Religion must be much kept up, by the means of the Parish Ministers, and by the Doctrine and Worship there performed; and they that think and endeavour contrary to this, (of which side soever) shall have the hearty thanks and concurrence of the Papists. Nor am I causelessly afraid,² that if we suffer the Principles and Practices, which I write against, to proceed without our contradiction, Popery will get by it so great advantage as may hazard us all, and we may lose that which the several Parties do contend about.

As to Popery;¹ The interest of the Protestant Religion must be much kept up, by the means of the Parish Ministers, and by the Doctrine and Worship there performed; and they that think and endeavour contrary to this, (of which side soever) shall have the hearty thanks and concurrence of the Papists. Nor am I causelesly afraid,² that if we suffer the Principles and Practices, which I write against, to proceed without our contradiction, Popery will get by it so great advantage as may hazard us all, and we may lose that which the several Parties do contend about.

1. 1Defence, p. 21.
2. 2P. 52.

Three ways especially Popery will grow out of our divisions, 1. By the odium and scorn of our disagreements, inconsistency, and multiplied Sects, they will persuade People, that we must either come for unity to them, or else all run mad, and crumble into dust and individuals. Thousands have been drawn to Popery, or confirmed in it, by this Argument