A26906:162

The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

Name: The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for Nevil Symmons, 1670

[48], 430, [15] p. · 130k words · Wing B1234 · ESTC R1684

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DIRECTIONS FOR Weak Christians, How they may escape the troubling,… › Direction 2: DIRECT. II.DIRECTIONS FOR VVeak Christians, How they may escape the troubling,… › Direction 2: DIRECT. II.

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Obj. But the Learnedst men are not always the wisest, in the matters of Religion. Answ. Many men are Learned in the Languages and Sciences, who are not Learned in the Scriptures; because they applied not their stud•es that way. And many men are Learned in the Scriptures, and the Sacred tongues, who yet live in sin, though they are able to teach the truth for others. But those that well understand the Scriptures, without Learning the Languages which they are written in, and the Customs of those times and Countries, or without much reading and long study both of the Scriptures themselves, and the writings of them that better understand them, are so few, so very few, if any at all, that if you will pretend to be one of them, you had need of some miracle or something like a miracle, to make your selves or others believe that you are not deceived. See what I have said of this at large, in my Unreasonableness of Infidelity.

Obj. But the Learnedst men are not always the wisest, in the matters of Religion. Answ. Many men are Learned in the Languages and Sciences, who are not Learned in the Scriptures; because they applyed not their stud•es that way. And many men are Learned in the Scriptures, and the Sacred tongues, who yet live in sin, though they are able to teach the truth for others. But those that well understand the Scriptures, without Learning the Languages which they are written in, and the Customs of those times and Countreys, or without much reading and long study both of the Scriptures themselves, and the writings of them that better understand them, are so few, so very few, if any at all, that if you will pretend to be one of them, you had need of some miracle or something like a miracle, to make your selves or others bebelieve that you are not deceived. See what I have said of this at large, in my Unreasonableness of Infidelity.

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Obj. The greater number are not always in the right; therefore why should my singularity discourage me? Answ. The greater number through the world are not in the right about Christianity, for they are not Christians. And the greater number of vulgar Christians be not in the right perhaps

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

Nevil Symmons

Year

1670

Size

[48], 430, [15] p.

Words

130,067

Catalogue

Wing B1234 · ESTC R1684

Text

EEBO-TCP A26906

Passages

1,298

Sections

105

Title page

The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

DIRECT. III.

Overvalue not the common gift of utterance, nor a high Profession, as if the presence or absence of either of them, did prove the presence or absence of true saving grace.

Overvalue not the common guift of utterance, nor a high Profession, as if the presence or absence of either of them, did prove the presence or absence of true saving grace.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

DIRECT. III.

Overvalue not the common gift of utterance, nor a high Profession, as if the presence or absence of either of them, did prove the presence or absence of true saving grace.

Overvalue not the common guift of utterance, nor a high Profession, as if the presence or absence of either of them, did prove the presence or absence of true saving grace.