A26906:1130
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.
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DIRECT. XXII.
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Lastly, Let all the Ministers of Christ, so deeply study their wonderful pattern of Love and tenderness, meekness and patience, and all those passages of Holy Scripture, which still commend those virtues to his servants, till their souls are cast into this sacred mould, and habituated to this Image and imitation of their Lord: And then Virtue will go from them, and they will be healing among all where-ever they shall come; As fire goeth out from the flinty contenders by their collisions, which maketh them still incendiaries and consumers of the Churches Peace.
Lastly, Let all the Ministers of Christ, so deeply study their wonderfull pattern of Love and tenderness, meekness and patience, and all those passages of Holy Scripture, which still commend those vertues to his servants, till their souls are cast into this sacred mould, and habituated to this Image and imitation of their Lord: And then Vertue will go from them, and they will be healing among all where-ever they shall come; As fire goeth out from the flinty contenders by their collisions, which maketh them still incendiaries and consumers of the Churches Peace.
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I Will therefore end these Directions with the bare repetition of some more of those sacred words, (besides those forecited) which may be fit to breed such a gracious habit, in those that will faithfully study and receive them.