A26892:1869
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
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§. 46. 11. The imperfection of all mens understandings and godliness is so great, that the differences of judgement that are among the best, will tend to the injury and undervaluing of their brethren: One is1 confident that his way is right, and another as confident of the contrary: And to how great contendings and injuries such differences may proceed, he that knoweth not in this age, shall not know for me. We need not go to Paul and Barnabas for an instance (that was a far lighter case): Nor to Epiphanius, Hierom and Chrysostom; nor to those Ages and Tragedies of contending Bishops that in the Eastern and Western Churches have been before us: Every one thinking his cause so plain, 2as to justify himself in all that he saith and doth, against those that presume to differ from him. And surely you may well expect some displeasure, even from good and learned men, when the Churches have felt such dreadful concussions, and bleedeth to this day, by so horrid divisions, through the remnants of that Pride and Ignorance which her Reverend Guides have still been guilty of.
§. 46. 11. The imperfection of all mens understandings and godliness is so great, that the differences of judgement that are among the best, will tend to the injury and undervaluing of their brethren: One is1 confident that his way is right, and another as confident of the contrary: And to how great contendings and injuries such differences may proceed, he that knoweth not in this age, shall not know for me. We need not go to Paul and Barnabas for an instance (that was a far lighter case): Nor to Epiphanius, Hierom and Chrysostome; nor to those Ag•s and Tragedies of contending Bishops that in the Eastern and Western Churches have been before us: Every one thinking his cause so plain, 2as to justifie himself in all that he saith and doth, against those that presume to differ from him. And surely you may well expect some displeasure, even from good and learned men, when the Churches have felt such dreadful concussions, and bleedeth to this day, by so horrid divisions, through the remnants of that Pride and Ignorance which her Reverend Guides have still been guilty of.