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

the five and twentieth (for Good works); all which are without any special reason both appropriated to the several days, and placed where they stand in the order of our Requests. The Petition on St. Thomas's day, for so perfect a Faith as shall never be reproved in the sight of God, is of doubtful conveniency, because contrary to the Scripture prediction of the event. In the Collect on St. John Baptist's day, the preaching of Penance, is a word of a more misleading tendency, as now used, than the preaching of Repentance. 14. The Lord's Prayer is a third time to be recited before the Communion: when yet as it is a Rule of Prayer as to order, it is forsaken through the Book. The next Prayer for loving and magnifying God's Name, is most necessary, but there out of order. The Commandments come in also out of order, without any special reason of connection to what goeth before and followeth. So do the following Prayers for the King, which yet in themselves are very good. And the Epistle, and Gospel, and Creed. The Churchwardens are not directed to an orderly collection for the Poor. ⟨p. 312⟩In the Sentences exciting to remember the Poor, the Scriptures and Apocryphal Passages of Tobit are confounded, without any note of sufficient distinction, as if we would have the People believe that Tobit is Canonical Scripture. The Prayer for the Church Militant (one of the best) is very defective, having no Petition for the Church, but those for [Truth, Unity, Love and Concord]. The Exhortation biddeth all (and entreateth them for the Lord Jesus sake) even the worst and most unprepared that be present, to come to the Lord's Table as invited thereto by God himself: which is a great wrong to him and them. And it misinterpreteth the Parable, Matth. 22. (to which it seemeth plainly to allude) which speaketh not of our coming to the Sacrament, but of our coming to Christ, and into his Church: Though indeed the Exhortation is very good, if it were made at a sufficient distance before the Sacrament, that they might have time of Preparation. The next Admonition against unworthy Receiving is very good; but impertinent and unseasonable, while it persuadeth them to come to the Minister for Advice, in order to the Sacrament which is perfectly to be administered. It is a disorder, for one of the Communicants to be invited to be the Mouth of the rest in Confession of Prayer.

the five and twentieth (for Good works); all which are without any special reason both appropriated to the several days, and placed where they stand in the order of our Requests. The Petition on St. Thomas's day, for so perfect a Faith as shall never be reproved in the sight of God, is of doubtful conveniency, because contrary to the Scripture prediction of the event. In the Collect on St. Iohn Baptist's day, the preaching of Penance, is a word of a more misleading tendency, as now used, than the preaching of Repentance. 14. The Lord's Prayer is a third time to be recited before the Communion: when yet as it is a Rule of Prayer as to order, it is forsaken through the Book. The next Prayer for loving and magnifying God's Name, is most necessary, but there out of order. The Commandments come in also out of order, without any special reason of connexion to what goeth before and followeth. So do the following Prayers for the King, which yet in themselves are very good. And the Epistle, and Gospel, and Creed. The Churchwardens are not directed to an orderly collection for the Poor.