A26906:587
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.
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.
This Error is a common cause of separations; but such as will suffer no two men to join together, but will turn all Chur••es into confusion, and crumble them to dust, if it be fully practised. For there is no man alive that worshippeth God without some sin, as I said before. ⟨p. 196⟩Do you ever pray your selves in secret or in your families without sin? Must all separate from you for this? Or may not you bear another's failings as patiently as your own? Your own you are still guilty of, because they are your own: but not of another mans which you cannot help. If I believed that I were partaker of the guilt of all the false doctrine, or faulty preaching, or prayer which was used in the Church where I am, I would fly from all the Churches in the world: But whither to go I could not tell.