A26906:1164
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.
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—
2 Cor. 10. 3, 4, 5. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.