A26906:1163
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.
1 Tim. 3. 2, 3. A Bishop must be blameless, apt to teach—no striker, nor greedy of filthy lucre, but patient—
Tit. 1. 7, 8, 9, 10. A Bishop must be blameless as the Steward of God, not self-willed (or self-pleasing, or stiff in his own conceit) not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre, but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound Doctrine, ⟨p. 419⟩both to exhort & to convince the gain-sayers, for there are many un•uly and vain talkers and deceivers, whose mouths must be stopped—
Tit. 1. 7, 8, 9, 10. A Bishop must be blameless as the Steward of God, not self-willed (or self-pleasing, or stiffe in his own conceit) not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre, but a lover of hospitality, a lov•r of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound Doctrine, ⟨p. 419⟩both to exhort & to convince the gain-sayers, for there are many un•uly and vain talkers and deceivers, whose mouths must be stopped—