A26906:1019
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.
Also variety of Temptations may occasion great variety of apprehensions: When one mans temptations are all alluring, to lust or gaming or stage-plays, or Romances, or drunkenness, or gluttony, or pastime; and another's temptations are all to melancholy, and inordinate at sterities and despair; When one man is tempted to errors of one kind, and another to the contrary. Even he that overcometh in the main, yet seldom so far conquereth as to receive no misimpression upon his mind.
Also variety of Temptations may occasion great variety of apprehensions: When one mans temptations are all alluring, to lust or gaming or stage-playes, or Romances, or drunkenness, or gluttony, or pastime; and anothers temptations are all to melancholy, and inordinate at sterities and despair; When one man is tempted to errours of one kind, and another to the contrary. Even he that overcometh in the main, yet seldome so far conquereth as to receive no misimpression upon his mind.
Moreover variety of Callings, studies and employments occasioneth variety of apprehensions: A mans mind is much wrought upon by the business and objects which he is daily conversant about: And therefore we find that usually the Courtier, the Soldier, the Sea-man, the Citizen and the Country-man much differ in their apprehensions. And usually (though not every ⟨p. 350⟩[…] ⟨p. 351⟩[…] ⟨p. 352⟩individual yet) as to the most part, all men are wisest in their own professions: Lawyers are wisest in matters of Law and Divines in matters of Divinity. Opportunities of study and instruction make exceeding great differences in the world. The Lawyer and Physician perhaps may on the by, have bestowed a few years time in Divinity, in the midst of other interrupting studies: When the Divine hath studied almost all his life, and drawn out his meditations in one uninterrupted thread. And so we discern that Lawyers and Physicians have oft different apprehensions, of matters of doctrine, worship and discipline, from those of the best Divines.