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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.
10. Think on the Common Calamity of mankind: ⟨image 26⟩what strange disparity there is in mens understandings, and will be: And how the Church here is a Hospital of diseased souls; of whom none are perfectly healed in this life.
11. Distinguish still between those truths and duties, which are or are not of necessity: and between the tolerable and the intolerable errors. And never think of a Common Unity and Concord, but upon the terms of necessary points; and of the primitive simplicity; and the forbearance of dissenters in tolerable differences.
12. Remember that the Pastoral Government is a work of Light and Love: And what these cannot do, we cannot do. Our great study therefore must be first to know more and to Love more than the people; and then to convince them by cogent evidence of truth; and to cause the warmth of our Love to be felt by them, in all the parts of our ministration and converse: As the warmth of the Mothers milk is needful to the good nutrition of the Child. The History of Martin.
12. Remember that the Pestoral Government is a work of Light and Love: And what these cannot do, we cannot do. Our great study therefore must be first to know more and to Love more than the people; and then to convince them by cogent evidence of truth; and to cause the warmth of our Love to be felt by them, in all the parts of our ministration and converse: As the warmth of the Mothers milk is needful to the good nutrition of the Child. The History of Martin.