A26906:384

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 18: DIRECT. XVIII.DIRECTIONS FOR VVeak Christians, How they may escape the troubling,… › Direction 18: DIRECT. XVIII.

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:381p. 115

Understand well the necessity of your Communion with all the Universal Church, and wherein it consisteth, and how far to be preferred before your Communion with any particular Church.

:382p. 115

With the Universal Church mystical, you must have communion by the same spirit, the same regeneration, the same Faith and Love, and the same Laws of God; and obedience thereto.

WIth the Vniversal Church mystical, you must have communion by the same spirit, the same regeneration, the same Faith and Love, and the same Laws of God; and obedience thereto.

:383p. 115–116

With the Universal Church visible, you must have communion, in the same Profession of faith and repentance, and the same baptism, and the same sort of ministry and public worship, so far as they are universally determined of by Christ. And though you are absent in body, you must be as present in spirit by consent, with all the Churches of Christ on earth. You must have spiritual communion with the whole spiritual Church, and visible communion in kind (in the same Rule of faith, and kind of worship) with all the visible Church; and ⟨p. 116⟩Local-presential communion with that particular Church where you are present, and with any other where your presence afterwards may be needful; unless they hinder you by unlawful terms.

With the Universal Church visible, you must have communion, in the same Profession of faith and repentance, and the same baptism, and the same sort of ministry and publike worship, so far as they are universally determined of by Christ. And though you are absent in body, you must be as present in spirit by consent, with all the Churches of Christ on earth. You must have spiritual communion with the whole spiritual Church, and visible communion in kind (in the same Rule of faith, and kind of workship) with all the visible Church; and

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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…

Understand well the necessity of your Communion with all the Universal Church, and wherein it consisteth, and how far to be preferred before your Communion with any particular Church.

DIRECT. XIX.

Take heed of engaging your selves too far in any divided Sect, or of espousing the interest of any party of Christians, to the neglect or injury of the common interest of the Universal Church, or cause of Christianity.

DIRECT. XX.

Be very suspicious of your Religious passions; and carefully distinguish between a sound and a sinful zeal; lest you should father your sin on the spirit of holiness, and think that you are most pleasing God, when you offend him.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Understand well the necessity of your Communion with all the Universal Church, and wherein it consisteth, and how far to be preferred before your Communion with any particular Church.

DIRECT. XIX.

Take heed of engaging your selves too far in any divided Sect, or of espousing the interest of any party of Christians, to the neglect or injury of the common interest of the Universal Church, or cause of Christianity.

DIRECT. XX.

Be very suspicious of your Religious passions; and carefully distinguish between a sound and a sinful zeal; lest you should father your sin on the spirit of holiness, and think that you are most pleasing God, when you offend him.