A26906:469
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.
so do the Separatists declaim against the sinfulness of Parish assemblies and communion, and of forms of prayer and such like, till they have frightened the ignorant into their mistaken zea••
Therefore, though I am not persuading you to separate from these feverish persons, as they do from others, yet I would advise all the younger and unsettled sort, that love themselves, not needlessly to choose the familiar frequent company of such: Our private company is at our own choice.
Therefore, though I am not perswading you to separate from these feaverish persons, as they do from others, yet I would advise all the younger and unsetled sort, that love themselves, not needlesly to choose the familiar frequent company of such: Our private company is at our own choice.
And as the company of fierce self-conceited dividers, is so very dangerous, so on the contrary, the company of grave, experienced, sober, charitable and judicious Divines and other Christians, is exceeding helpful to settle the minds of the younger and weaker sort: with them they shall hear the unity of the Church, and the doctrine of Christian Love and Concord, humility, meekness and moderation opened; and the sinfulness and lamentable consequents, of schism, self-conceitedness, censoriousness and discord; which among others they should never hear.