A26906:1212
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.
3 Joh. 9. 10, 11. I wrote to the Church, but i•• otrephes who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them receiveth us not—and not content therewith neither doth he himself receive the Brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the Church. Beloved follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that DOTH GOOD, is of God; but he that doth evil hath not seen God.
3 Ioh. 9. 10, 11. I wrote to the Church, but i•• otrephes who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them receiveth us not—and not content therewith neither doth he himself receive the Brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the Church. Beloved follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that DOTH GOOD, is of God; but he that doth evil hath not seen God.
1 Thes. 2. 14, 15. For ye also have suffered like things of your own Countrymen, even as they ⟨p. 428⟩have of the Jews: who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets; and have persecuted us: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men; forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved; to fill up their sin alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.☞
Luk. 9. 54, 55. Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elijah did? But he turned and rebuked them and said, ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of: for the son of man is not come to destroy mens lives, but to save them.