A26892:5564
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.
§. 16. 4. When people in the same Church do gather into private meetings, not under the guidance of their Pastors, to edify one another in holy exercises in Love and peace, but in opposition to their lawful Pastors, or to one another, to propagate their singular opinions, and increase their parties, and speak against those that are not on their side; schism is then ready to bring forth and multiply, and the swarm is ready to come forth and be gone.
§. 16. 4. When people in the same Church do gather into private meetings, not under the guidance of their Pastors, to edifie one another in holy exercises in Love and peace, but in opposition to their lawful Pastors, or to one another, to propagate their singular opinions, and increase their parties, and speak against those that are not on their side; schism is then ready to bring forth and multiply, and the swarm is ready to come forth and be gone.
§. 17. 5. When these people actually depart, and renounce or forsake the Communion of the Church, and cast off their faithful Pastors, and draw into a separated body by themselves, and choose them Pastors and call themselves a Church, and all without any just sufficient cause; When thus Churches are gathered out of Churches, before the old ones are dissolved, or they have any warrant to depart; when thus Pastor is set up against Pastor, Church against Church, and Altar against Altar; this is schism ripe and fruitful: The swarm is gone, and hived in another place.
§. 18. 6. If now the neighbour Churches by their Pastors in their Synods, shall in compassion seek to reclaim these stragglers, and they justify their unjust separation, and contemn the counsel of the Churches and Ministers of Christ; this is a confirmed obstinate schism.
§. 18. 6. If now the neighbour Churches by their Pastors in their Synods, shall in compassion seek to reclaim these straglers, and they justifie their unjust separation, and contemn the counsel of the Churches and Ministers of Christ; this is a confirmed obstinate schism.