A26892:5551
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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Hence it followeth that as in the Visible Church some are the members of Christ, and some are indeed the Children of the Devil, some shall be saved and some be damned,1 even with the •orest damnation, (the greatest difference in the World to come being betwixt the visible members of the Church), so among the Godly and sincere themselves they are not all alike amiable or happy, but they shall differ in Glory as they do in Grace: All these differences there have been, are, and will be in the Church, notwithstanding its unity in other things.
§. 11. III. The word [Schism] cometh from [Greek or Hebrew], disseco, lacero, and signifieth any sinful Division1 among Christians: some Papists (as Johnson) will have nothing called Schism, but a Dividing ones self from the Catholic Church: Others maintain that there is nothing in Scripture called Schism, but making divisions in particular Churches. The truth is, (obvious in the thing it self) that there are several sorts of Schism or Division. 1. There is a causing Divisions in a particular Church, when yet no party divideth from that Church, much less from the Universal. Thus Paul blameth the Divisions that were among the Corinthians, while one said I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollo, &c.