A26906:569
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.
And yet some are more wicked than barely to condemn their brethren's prayers, because they be not clothed just as their own. They will also break jests and scorns at them, and take this for the ingenuity of their piety. Like men of several Countries who th•nk the fashions of all Countries save their own, to be ridiculous, and laugh ⟨p. 188⟩at strangers as if they were clothed in fools Coats. So many do by the clothing of other mens devotions. Some scorn at extemporary prayers, and some scorn at Forms and Liturgies: And the Litany they call conjuring, and the Responses they take for a formal jocular playing with holy things; when in all these, the humble heavenly Christian, is lifting up his soul to God.
And yet some are more wicked than barely to condemn their brethrens prayers, because they be not cloathed just as their own. They will also break jests and scorns at them, and take this for the ingenuity of their piety. Like men of several Countreys who th•nk the fashions of all Countryes save their own, to be ridiculous, and laugh ⟨p. 188⟩at strangers as if they were cloathed in fools Coats. So many do by the cloathing of other mens devotions. Some scorn at extemporary prayers, and some scorn at Forms and Liturgies: And the Litany they call conjuring, and the Responses they take for a formal jocular playing with holy things; when in all these, the humble heavenly Christian, is lifting up his soul to God.
By this petulant carnal kind of zeal, I remember our divisions were here raised at the first: To deride the Common prayer, and deride them that used it, was too common with some kind of religious people: And they excused it by Elijah his example, As if Idolaters, and the true worshippers of God, that differ from us in a Form, or Ceremony were all one.
By this petulant carnal kind of zeal, I remember our divisions were here raised at the first: To derid the Common prayer, and deride them that used it, was too common with some kind of religious people: And they excused it by Elias his example, As if Idolaters, and the true worshippers of God, that differ from us in a Form, or Ceremony were all one.