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Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Because they saw so many insufficient and vicious Men among the Conformable Clergy.
4. Because they had a high esteem of the Parts and Piety of most of the Nonconformable Ministers.
5. Because they grieved to see so many Excellent Men silenced, while so many Thousand were perishing in Ignorance and Sin.
6. Because though they took the Liturgy to be lawful, yet a more orderly serious Scriptural way of Worship was much more pleasing to them.
7. Because Fasting and Praying, and other Exercises, which they found much benefit by, were so strictly looked after, that the High Commission and the Bishops Courts did make it much more perilous, than common Swearing and Drunkenness proved to the Ungodly.