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The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…
The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being dividers or troublers of the church with some directions to the pastors how to deal with such Christians / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Symmons, 1670
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.
And mens various educations, and converse, and employments must needs cause a great variety of apprehensions: As their nature so their education may agree in some generals: But there are no two persons at age in the world, whose educations have been the same in all particulars: Though they were children of the same parents, and bred in the same house and time, yet all that they have seen and heard and meddled with hath not been in all points just the same: the same in matter, and time and order and all circumstances. And we see what great diversity of judgements any one of these doth daily cause. To have parents of several minds and tempers: To be bred in families where there is great diversity of knowledge and practise: To live among company of contrary principles and practise; when one man ⟨p. 350⟩heareth one thing, talked of and maintained in his daily converse, and another the contrary: When one hath a teacher of one opinion and another of another: Or one hath a teacher that is cold, and another one that is fervent; one a judicious one, and another a rash and intemperate one; what diversity of apprehensions may arise from any one of these?
And mens various educations, and converse, and employments must needs cause a great variety of apprehensions: As their nature so their education may agree in some generals: But there are no two persons at age in the world, whose educations have been the same in all particulars: Though they were children of the same parents, and bred in the same house and time, yet all that they have seen and heard and medled with hath not been in all points just the same: the same in matter, and time and order and all circumstances. And we see what great diversity of judgements any one of these doth daily cause. To have parents of several minds and tempers: To be bred in families where there is great diversity of knowledge and practise: To live among company of contrary principles and practise; when one man ⟨p. 350⟩heareth one thing, talkt of and maintain'd in his daily converse, and another the contrary: When one hath a teacher of one opinion and another of another: Or one hath a teacher that is cold, and another one that is servent; one a judicious one, and another a rash and intemperate one; what diversity of apprehensions may arise from any one of these?