Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

when indeed it is a sin to pray to be [evermore defended from all adversity]; when God hath told us, that through many tribulations we must enter into his kingdom, and that he that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, and that God chasteneth every son whom he receiveth, and that he that will be Christ's Disciple must deny himself, and forsake all and take up his Cross and follow him, accounting the afflictions of this present time unworthy to be compared with the glory to be revealed. That on the first Sunday after Trinity is as the rest; having no special respect to the day, or order of Requests: and containeth only the General Request, so oft repeated, of Grace to keep God's Commandments and please him. No more reason is there for the order of the Petition for [fear and love] on the second Sunday after Trinity. Nor of that on the third Sunday, which only asketh audience, and that God [by his mighty aid will defend us] without any instancing from what. No more reason is there for the order of the Requests on the fourth Sunday after Trinity, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth (which only prays God, whose Providence is never deceived, to put away from […] all hurtful things, and give us these things that be profitable: all me Generals; in which no particular repentance or desires are expressed). So also on the ninth Sunday (that hath the like Generals) and on the tenth Sunday, which asketh nothing but that we may obtain our petitions, and ask that which pleaseth God: and that on the eleventh Sunday (that we running to the Promises may be partakers of the heavenly Treasure): and that on the twelfth (which asketh for that which we dare not presume to ask): and that on the thirteenth (that we may so run to the promises as to attain them) which is all the Petition: and that on the fourteenth; and that on the fifteenth (keep us ever by thy help, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation); and that on the sixteenth, the seventeenth, the eighteenth (where [the infections of the Devil] is an inconvenient phrase); the nineteenth, the twentieth, the one and twentieth, the two and twentieth (which again prays that the Church may be free from all adversities): the three and twentieth (which is nothing but in general, that what we ask may be granted); the four and twentieth (for forgiveness);

when indeed it is a sin to pray to be [evermore defended from all adversity]; when God hath told us, that through many tribulations we must enter into his kingdom, and that he that will live godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution, and that God chasteneth every son whom he receiveth, and that he that will be Christ's Disciple must deny himself, and forsake all and take up his Cross and follow him, accounting the afflictions of this present time unworthy to be compared with the glory to be revealed. That on the first Sunday after Trinity is as the rest; having no special respect to the day, or order of Requests: and containeth only the General Request, so oft repeated, of Grace to keep God's Commandments and please him. No more reason is there for the order of the Petition for [fear and love] on the second Sunday after Trinity. Nor of that on the third Sunday, which only asketh audience, and that God [by his mighty aid will defend us] without any instancing from what. No more reason is there for the order of the Requests on the fourth Sunday after Trinity, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth (which only prays God, whose Providence is never deceived, to put away from all hurtful things, and give us these things that be profitable: all mee Generals; in which no particular repentance or desires are expressed). So also on the ninth Sunday (that hath the like Generals) and on the tenth Sunday, which asketh nothing but that we may obtain our petitions, and ask that which pleaseth God: and that on the eleventh Sunday (that we running to the Promises may be partakers of the heavenly Treasure): and that on the twelfth (which asketh for that which we dare not presume to ask): and that on the thirteenth (that we may so run to the promises as to attain them) which is all the Petition: and that on the fourteenth; and that on the fifteenth (keep us ever by thy help, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation); and that on the sixteenth, the seventeenh, the eighteenth (where [the infections of the Devil] is an inconvenient phrase); the nineteenth, the twentieth, the one and twentieth, the two and twentieth (which again prays that the Church may be free from all adversities): the three and twentieth (which is nothing but in general, that what we ask may be granted); the four and twentieth (for forgiveness);