A26906:104
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.
53. When you are exasperated by the hurt which you feel from Magistrates, remember also the Good which the Church receiveth by them.
54. Learn to suffer by good people, and by Ministers; and not only by ungodly people, or by Magistrates.
55. When you complain of violence and persecution in others; take heed lest the same inward vice work in you, by Church cruelties, and damning censures, against them or others. Persecution and separation often have the same Cause.
55. When you complain of violence and persecution in others; take heed lest the same inward vice work in you, by Church cruelties, and dimning censures, against them or others. Persecution and separation often have the same Cause.
56. Keep still in your eye, the State of all Christs Churches upon earth; that you may know what a people they are through the world, whom Christ hath Communion with: and may not ignorantly separate from almost all the Church of Christ, while you think that you separate but from those about you. Queries about separation.