A26906:132
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.
DIRECTIONS FOR Weak Christians, How they may escape the troubling, dividing and endangering of the Church by their Errors in Doctrine, Worship, and Church-Communion.
DIRECTIONS FOR VVeak Christians, How they may escape the troubling, dividing and endangering of the Church by their Errours in Doctrine, Worship, and Church-Communion.
IF we had never been warned by the History of the Sacred Scripture, or of the former Ages of the Church, yet our experience in this present Age is enough to tell both us and our Posterity, how great perturbations, and calamities may come to the Church of Christ, by the miscarriages of the more zealous Professors of Religion! and how great a hinderance such may prove to the prosperity of the Gospel; to the Love and Unity of Christians; to the Reformation, and holy order of the Congregations, and to all those good ends which are desired by themselves. How great a dishonour they may prove to the Christian name, and what occasions of hardening the wicked in their contempt of Godliness, to their everlasting ruin, and the sufferings of Believers.
IF we had never been warned by the History of the Sacred Scripture, or of the former Ages of the Church, yet our experience in this present Age is enough to tell both us and our Posterity, how great perturbations, and calamites may come to the Church of Christ, by the miscarriages of the more zealous Professors of Religion! and how great a hinderance such may prove to the prosperity of the Gospel; to the Love and Unity of Christians; to the Reformation, and holy order of the Congregations, and to all those good ends which are desired by themselves. How great a dishonour they may prove to the Christian name, and what occasions of hardening the wicked in their contempt of Godliness, to their everlasting ruine, and the sufferings of Believers.