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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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§. 28. If it were not a thing too evident, that Dominion and Riches go for Religion with them, and gain for Godliness, and honour and money instead of argument, it would be a most stupendous wonder, that so many learned men should be found among Christians in the world, to hinder the peace and unity of the Church, as do it vehemently and implacably in the Church of Rome; when so easy a thing, and so reasonable, would unite almost all the Christian world, as is, the requiring no more as necessary to our Union, than what was made necessary in the days of the Apostles, and the obtruding nothing as necessary to salvation, which the Apostles and primitive Church were saved without. This easy reasonable thing, which no man hath any thing of seeming sense and weight to speak against, would end all the ruinating differences among Christians.
§. 28. If it were not a thing too evident, that Dominion and Riches go for Religion with them, and gain for Godliness, and honour and money instead of argument, it would be a most stupendious wonder, that so many learned men should be found among Christians in the world, to hinder the peace and unity of the Church, as do it vehemently and implacably in the Church of Rome; when so easie a thing, and so reasonable, would unite almost all the Christian world, as is, the requiring no more as necessary to our Union, than what was made necessary in the dayes of the Apostles, and the obtruding nothing as necessary to salvation, which the Apostles and primitive Church were saved without. This easie reasonable thing, which no man hath any thing of seeming sense and weight to speak against, would end all the ruinating differences among Christians.
§. 29. Direct. 14. Be desirous to know all that God would have you know, and be willing to be ignorant 1of all that God would have you ignorant of: and pry not into unrevealed things; and much less make them the matter of any uncharitable strife.
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