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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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Familiarity feedeth Love and Unity.
§. 106. Direct. 23. When ever you look at any corruption in the Church, look also at the contrary extreme, 1and see and avoid the danger of one as well as of the other. Be sure every error and Church-corruption hath its extreme: And if you do not see it, and the danger of it, you are the liker to run into it. Look well on both sides if you would be safe.
§. 106. Direct. 23. When ever you look at any corruption in the Church, look also at the contrary ex•r•am, 1and see and avoid the danger of one as well as of the other. Be sure every error and Church-corruption hath its extream: And if you do not see it, and the danger of it, you are the liker to run into it. Look well on both sides if you would be safe.
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§. 107. Direct. 24. Worship God your selves in the purest manner, and under the most edifying Ministry 1that lawfully you can attain: but be not too forward to condemn others that reach not to your measure, or attain not so much happiness: And deny not personal communion sometimes, with Churches that are more blemished, and fit for Communion. And when you cannot join locally with them, let them have the communion of your Hearts, in faith, and charity, and prayer for each other. I fear not here openly to tell the world, that if I were turned loose to my own liberty, I would ordinarily worship God in that manner that I thought most pure, and agreeable to his Will and Word: but I would sometimes go to the Churches of other Christians, that were fit for Christian communion, if there were such about me: Sometime to the Independents, sometime to the moderate Anabaptists, sometime to such as had a Liturgy as faulty as that of the Greek or the Ethiopian Churches: to show by my practice, what communion my heart hath with them all.