A26906:576

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 33: DIRECT. XXXIII.DIRECTIONS FOR VVeak Christians, How they may escape the troubling,… › Direction 33: DIRECT. XXXIII.

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[ Earlier:573–588 of 1,298

:573p. 190

And what pitiful arguments have they to prove this charge of Idolatry? False worship of the true God is idolatry as well as worshipping a false God: But such is the Liturgy: Ergo—

:574p. 190–191

This is all that these rash preachers must trouble the Church, and seduce men into a hating factious zeal with. But what mean these men by false worship? Do they mean worship contrary to Gods word? That is, which is sinful? And do they mean All such sinful worship or some only? If they mean all such sinful worship, than these words of theirs are Idolatry; For they are part of their preaching, which is part of Gods worship, in their own sense: And it is false doctrine, and tendeth to mens perdition. And so they and all false Teachers should be idolaters. By this they would turn all sins in worship into one: It is all Idolatry. Is not every confused prayer sinful, which hath unmeet expressions and disordered, and hath wandering ⟨p. 191⟩thoughts and dull affections? Is there any of these Love-killers that dare say they pray without sin? And must we not separate from them then as Idolaters? Yea and every man from himself; that is, He must give over praying because its all Idolatry?

:575p. 191

But perhaps they will say; This sin is but in the manner and not in the matter.

:576p. 191

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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. XXXIV.

Think not that all is unlawful to be obeyed, which is unlawfully commanded.

DIRECT. XXXV.

Think not that you are guilty of all the Faults of other mens worship with whom you join; no not of the Ministers or Congregations; Nor that you are bound to separate from them in worship; because of all the faults in their performance.

Think not that you are guilty of all the Faults of other mens worship with whom you joyn; no not of the Ministers or Congregations; Nor that you are bound to separate from them in worship; because of all the faults in their performance.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

DIRECT. XXXIV.

Think not that all is unlawful to be obeyed, which is unlawfully commanded.

DIRECT. XXXV.

Think not that you are guilty of all the Faults of other mens worship with whom you join; no not of the Ministers or Congregations; Nor that you are bound to separate from them in worship; because of all the faults in their performance.

Think not that you are guilty of all the Faults of other mens worship with whom you joyn; no not of the Ministers or Congregations; Nor that you are bound to separate from them in worship; because of all the faults in their performance.