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

Of Spiritual Pride.

Proud Men will not grow in the same Field,¹ or Church, where Tares do grow, but will transplant themselves, because God will not pluck up the Tares, especially if any Ministerial neglect of Discipline be conjoined; and instead of blaming their own Pride, lay the blame on the corruptions of the Church.—The Pharisees Liturgy is frequent in separate Assemblies, God I thank thee, I am not as other men. But this is very remarkable, that it is a pretence of our impurity, and a greater purity with you that is pleaded by such as first turn over to you; and that this height of all impieties should be the usual issue or a way, pretended so exact and clean, doubtless it is not Gods mind, by this to discourage any from purity and true Reformation, but to show his detestation of that spiritual pride, which maketh Men to have too high thoughts of themselves, and too much to contemn others, and to desire to be further separated from them, than God in the day of grace doth allow of. Consider this, it is the judgment of some, that Thousands are gone to Hell, and Ten Thousands on their ⟨p. 58⟩march thither, that in all probability had never come there, if they had not been tempted from the Parish Churches, for enjoyment of communion in a purer Church.

Proud Men will not grow in the same Field,¹ or Church, where Tares do grow, but will transplant themselves, because God will not pluck up the Tares, especially if any Ministerial neglect of Discipline be conjoyned; and instead of blaming their own Pride, lay the blame on the corruptions of the Church.—The Pharisees Liturgy is frequent in separate Assemblies, God I thank thee, I am not as other men. But this is very remarkable, that it is a pretence of our impurity, and a greater purity with you that is pleaded by such as first turn over to you; and that this height of all impieties should be the usual issue or a way, pretended so exact and clean, doubtless it is not Gods mind, by this to disourag any from purity and true Reformation, but to shew his detestation of that spiritual pride, which maketh Men to have too high thoughts of themselves, and too much to contemn others, and to desire to be further separated from them, than God in the day of grace doth allow of. Consider this, it is the judgment of some, that Thousands are gone to Hell, and Ten Thousands on their