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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27006	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.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708.	1696 (1696)	Wing B1370; ESTC R16109	1,288,485	824

the Rubrick should not be mended where all Vestments in them of Divine Service are now commanded which were used 2 Edw. 6. 4. Whether Lessons of Canonical Scripture should be put into the Kalender instead of Apocrypha 5. That the Doxology should be always printed at the End of the Lord's Prayer and be always said by the Minister 6. Whether the Rubrick should not be mended where it is that the Lessons should be sung in a plain tune why not read with a distinct voice 7. Whether Gloria Patri should be repeated at the end of every Psalm 8. Whether according to that End of the Preface before the Common Prayer the Curate should be bound to read Morning and Evening Prayers every day in the Church if he be at home and not reasonably letted and why not only on Wednesday and Friday Morning and in the Afternoon on Saturday with Holy-day Eves 9. Whether the Hymns Benedicite omnia Opera c. may not be left out 10. In the Prayer for the Clergy that Phrase Perhaps to be altered which only worketh great marvels 11. In the Rubrick for the Administration of the Lords Supper whether an alteration be not to be made in this That such as intend to Communicate shall signifie their Names to the Curate over Night or in the Morning before Prayers 12. The next Rubrick to be cleared how far a Minister may repulse a scandalous and notorious Sinner from the Communion 13. Whether the Rubrick is not to be mended where the Churchwardens are strictly charged to gather the Alms for the Poor before the Communion begin for by experience it is proved to be done better when the People depart 14. Whether the Rubrick is not to be mended concerning the Party that is to make his General Confession upon his knees before the Communion that it should be said only by the Minister and then at every Clause repeated to the People 15. These words in the Form of the Consecration This is my Body This is my Blood of the New Testament not to be printed hereafter in great Letters 16. Whether it will not be fit to insert a Rubrick touching kneeling at the Communion that is to comply in all Humility with the Prayer which the Minister makes when he delivers the Elements 17. Whether Cathedral and Collegiate Churches shall be strictly bound to Celebrate the Holy Communion every Sunday at the least and might not it rather be added once in a Month. 18. In the last Rubrick touching the Communion it is not fit that the Printer make a full Point and begin with a new Great Letter at these words And every Pa●●shioner shall also receive the Sacrament 19. Whether in the first Prayer at the Baptism these words Didst sanctifie the Flood of Jordan and all other Waters should be thus changed Didst sanctifie the Element of Water 20. Whether it be not fit to have some discreet Rubrick made to take away all scandal from signing the Sign of the Cross upon the Infants after Baptism or if it shall seem more expedient to be quite disused whether this Reason should be published That in ancient Liturgies no Cross was confined upon the Party but where Oyl also was used and therefore Oyl being now omitted so may also that which was concomitant with it the Sign of the Cross. 21. In Private Baptism the Rubrick mentions that which must not be done that the Minister may dip the Child in Water being at the point of Death 22. Whether in the last Rubrick of Confirmation those words be to be left out and be undoubtedly saved 23. Whether the Catechism may not receive a little more Enlargement 24. Whether the Times prohibited for Marriage are quite to be taken away 25. Whether none hereafter shall have Licenses to marry nor be asked their Banns of Matrimony that shall not bring with them a Certificate from their Ministers that they are instructed in their Catechism 26. Whether these Words in Matrimony With my Body I thee worship shall not be thus altered I give thee power over my body 27. Whether the last Rubrick of Marriage should not be mended that new married Persons should receive the Communion the same day of their marriage may not well be or upon the Sunday following when the Communion is celebrated 28. In the Absolution of the Sick were it not plain to say I pronounce thee Absolved 29. The Psalm of Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth were it not fit to be composed out of proper Versicles taken from divers Psalms 30. May not the Priest rather read the Communion in the Desk than go up to the Pulpit 31. The Rubrick in the Commination leave it doubtful whether the Liturgy may not be read in divers places in the Church 32. In the Order of the Burial of all Persons 't is said We commit his Body to the Ground in sure and certain hope of Resurrection to Eternal Life Why not thus Knowing assuredly that the Dead shall rise again 33. In the Collect next unto the Collect against the Pestilence the Clause perhaps to be mended For the honour of Iesus Christ's sake 34. In the Litany instead of Fornication and all other deadly Sin would it not satisfie thus From Fornication and all other grievous Sins 35. It is very fit that the Imperfections of the Metre in the singing Psalms should be mended and then Lawful Authority added unto them to have them publickly sung before and after Sermons and sometimes instead of the Hymns of Morning and Evening Prayer § 242. And now our Calamities began to be much greater than before We were called all by the Name of Presbytorians the odious Name though we never put up one Petition for Presbytery but pleaded for Primitive Episcopacy We were represented in the common talk of those who thought it their Interest to be our Adversaries as the most Seditious People unworthy to be used like Men or to enjoy our common Liberty among them We could not go abroad but we met with daily Reproaches and false Stories of us Either we were feigned to be Plotting or to be Disaffecting the People c. And no Sermon that I preached scarce escaped the Censure of being Seditious though I preached only for Repentance and Faith and Morality and Common Vertue yea if it were against Disobedience and Sedition all was one as to my Estimation with those Men. And the great Increaser of all this was that there were a multitude of Students that studied for Preferment and many Gentlemen that aimed at their Rising in the World who found our quickly what was most pleasing to those whose Favour they must rise by and so set themselves industriously to Reviling Calumniating and Cruelty against all those whom they perceived to be odious And he that can but convince a worldly Generation of any thing that 's the ready way to their Preserment shall be sure to have it closely followed and throughly done with all their might § 243. Before and

they occasioned I could not bear through the weakness of my Stomach to rise before Seven a Clock in the Morning and afterwards not till much later and some Infirmities I laboured under made it above an hour before I could be drest An hour I must of necessity have to walk before Dinner and another before Supper and after Supper I can seldom Study All which besides times of Family Duties and Prayer and Eating c. leaveth me but little time to study which hath been the greatest external Personal Affliction of all my Life 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 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 § 136. I have mentioned my sweet and acceptable Employment Let me to the Praise of my gracious Lord acquaint you with some of my Success And I will not suppress it though I fore-know that the Malignant will impute the mention of it to Pride and Oftentation For it is the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving which I owe to my most gracious God which I will not deny him for fear of being censured as proud lest I prove my self proud indeed while I cannot undergo the Imputation of Pride in the performance of my Thanks for such underserved Mercies My publick Preaching met with an attentive diligent Auditory Having broke over the brunt of the Opposition of the Rabble before the Wars I found them afterwards tractable and unprejudiced Before I ever entred into the Ministry God blessed my private Conference to the Conversion of some who remain firm and eminent in holiness to this day But then and in the beginning of my Ministry I was wont to number them as Jewels but since then I could not keep any number of them The Congregation was usually full so that we are fain to build five Galleries after my coming thither the Church it self being very capacious and the most commodious and Convenient that ever I was in Our private Meetings also were full On the Lord's Days there was no disorder to be seen in the Streets but you might hear an hundred Families singing Psalms and repeating Sermons as you passed through the Streets In a word when I came thither first there was about one Family in a Street that worshipped God and called on his Name and when I came away there were some Streets where there was not past one Family in the side of a Street that did not so and that did not by professing serious Godliness give us hopes of their sincerity And those Families which were the worst being Inns and Alehouses usually Some persons in each House did seem to be Religious Though our Administration of the Lords Supper was so ordered as displeased many and the far greater part kept away themselves yet we had 600 that were Communicats of whom there was not twelve that I had not good hopes of as to their sincerity and those few that did consent to our Communion and yet lived scandalously were Excommunicated afterward And I hope there were many that had the Fear of God that came not to our Communion in the Sacrament some of them being kept off by Husbands by Parents by Masters and some disswaded by Men that differed from us Those many that kept away yet took it patiently and did not revile us as doing them wrong And those unruly young men that were Excommunicated bore it patiently as to their outward behaviour though their hearts were full of bitterness except one of whom I shall speak anon When I set upon Personal Conference with each Family and Catechizing them there were very few Families in all the Town that refused to come and those few were Beggers at the Towns-ends who were so ignorant that they were ashamed it should be manifest And few Families went from me without some tears or seemingly serious Promises for a Godly Life Yet many ignorant and ungodly Persons there were still among us but most of them were in the Parish and not in the Town and in those parts of the Parish which were furthest from the Town And whereas one part of the Parish was impropriate and payed Tythes to Lay-men and the other part maintained the Church a Brook dividing them it fell out that almost all that side of the Parish which paid Tythes to the Church were godly honest People and did it willingly without Contention and most of the bad People of the Parish lived on the other side Some of the Poor men did competently understand the Body of Divinity and were able to judge in difficult Controversies Some of them were so able in Prayer that very ●ew Ministers did match them in order and fulness and apt Expressions and holy Oratory with fervency Abundance of them were so able to pray very laudably with their Families or with others The temper of their Minds and the innocency of their Lives was much more laudable than their Parts The Professors of serious Godliness were generally of very humble Minds and Carriage of meek and quiet behaviour unto others and of blamelesness and innocency in their Conversations And God was pleased also to give me abundant Encouragement in the Lectures which I preached abroad in other places as at Worcester Cleobury c. But especially at Dudley and Sheffual at the former of which being the first place that ever I preached in the poor Nailers and other Labourers would not only crowd the Church as full as ever I saw any in London but also hand upon the Windows and the Leads without And in my poor Endeavours with my Brethren in the Ministry my Labours were not lost