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

Besides all these, every first Wednesday of the Month was our monthly Meeting for Parish Discipline; and every first Thursday of the month was the Ministers meeting for Discipline and Disputation: And in those Disputations it fell to my lot to be almost constant Moderator; and for every such day (usually) I prepared a written Determination. All which I mention as my Mercies and Delights, and not as my Burdens. And every Thursday besides, I had the Company of divers godly Ministers at my House after the Lecture, with whom I spent that Afternoon in the truest Recreation, till my Neighbours came to •••et for their Exercise of Repetition and Prayer.

For ever blessed be the God of Mercies, that brought me from the Grave, and gave me after Wars and Sickness fourteen years Liberty in such sweet Employment! And that in times of Usurpation I had all this Mercy and happy Freedom, when under our rightful King and Governor, I and many hundreds more are silenced, and laid by, as broken Vessels, and suspected and vilified as scarce to be tolerated to live privately and quietly in the Land! That God should make days of Licentiousness and Disorder under an Usurper so great a Mercy to me, and many a thousand more, who under the lawful Governors which they desired, and in the days when Order is said to be restored, do some of us sit in obscurity and unprofitable silence, and some lie in Prisons, and all of us are accounted as the Scum and Sweepings or Off-scourings of the Earth.

For ever blessed be the God of Mercies, that brought me from the Grave, and gave me after Wars and Sickness fourteen years Liberty in such sweet Imployment! And that in times of Usurpation I had all this Mercy and happy Freedom, when under our rightful King and Governour, I and many hundreds more are silenced, and laid by, as broken Vessels, and suspected and vilified as scarce to be tollerated to live privately and quietly in the Land! That God should make days of Licentiousness and Disorder under an Usurper so great a Mercy to me, and many a thousand more, who under the lawful Governours which they desired, and in the days when Order is said to be restored, do some of us sit in obscurity and unprofitable silence, and some lie in Prisons, and all of us are accounted as the Scum and Swepings or Off-scourings of the Earth.