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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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2. And if this be a fault, it must be a greater fault to cause Divisions from, as well as in, a particular Church, which a man may do that separateth not from it himself: As if he persuade others to separate; or if he sow those tares of error which cause it, or if he causelessly excommunicate or cast them out.
2. And if this be a fault, it must be a greater fault to cause Divisions from, as well as in, a particular Church, which a man may do that separateth not from it himself: As if he perswade others to separate; or if he sow those tares of errour which cause it, or if he causlesly excommunicate or cast them out.
3. And then it must be as great a sin, to make a causeless separation from the Church that you are in your self, which is another sort of Schism: If you may not Divide in the Church, nor Divide others from the Church, then you may not causelessly Divide from it your selves.
3. And then it must be as great a sin, to make a causeless separation from the Church that you are in your self, which is another sort of Schism: If you may not Divide in the Church, nor Divide others from the Church, then you may not causelesly Divide from it your selves.
4. And it is yet a greater Schism, when you Divide not only from that one Church, but from many, because they concur in opinion with that one (which is the common way of Dividers.)