A26892:1862
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
§. 39. 4. You will have many factious Zealots to please, who being strangers to the Love of Holiness, Christianity and Unity, are ruled by the interest of an Opinion or a Sect: And these will never be pleased by you, unless you will be one of their side or party, and conform your self to their opinions: If you be not against them, but set your selves to reconcile and end the differences in the ⟨p. 223⟩Church, they will hate you as not promoting their opinions, but weakening them by some abhorred Sy• cr•tisms. As in Civil, so in Ecclesiastical Wars, the Fire-brands cannot endure the Peaceable: If you will be Neuters, you shall be used as enemies. If you be never so much for Christ, and Holiness, and Common Truth, all's nothing, unless you be also f•r them, and their conceits.
§. 39. 4. You will have many factious Zealots to please, who being strangers to the Love of Holiness, Christianity and Unity, are ruled by the interest of an Opinion or a Sect: And these will never be pleased by you, unless you will be one of their side or party, and conform your self to their opinions: If you be not against them, but set your selves to reconcile and end the differences in the ⟨p. 223⟩Church, they will hate you as not promoting their opinions, but weakning them by some abhorred Sy• cr•tisms. As in Civil, so in Ecclesi•stical Wars, the Fire-brands cannot endure the Peaceable: If you will be Neuters, you shall be used as enemies. If you be never so much for Christ, and Holiness, and Common Truth, all's nothing, unless you be also f•r them, and their c•nceits.