A26906:596
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.
Fourthly, I do not profess an approbation and consent to all the faults of my own secret or family prayers: Much less to another mans, who is not in my power. I have disorders, and defects and incongruities and other faults in all my prayers; And if my very speaking and committing them signify not my approbation of them, how much less is it signified where it is not I but another man that speaketh and committeth them.
Fourthly, I do not profess an approbation and consent to all the faults of my own secret or family prayers: Much less to another mans, who is not in my power. I have d•sorders, and defects and incongruities and other faults in all my prayers; And if my very speaking and committing them signifie not my approbation of them, how much less is it signified where it is not I but another man that speaketh and committeth them.
Fifthly, And as I have said, This opinion would make it unlawful to join with any Pastor or Church on earth, because no sin must be approved of and consented to: and every one mixeth sin with their prayers.
Fifthly, And as I have said, This opinion would make it unlawful to joyn with any Pastor or Church on earth, because no sin must be approved of and consented to: and every one mixeth sin with their prayers.
Obj. But (say those on the one extreme) if I join with one that is known to be a Separatist, an Anabaptist, an Antinomian, an Arminian, &c. his own profession doth before hand bid me to expect not only that the manner but the matter of his prayer be erroneous.
Obj. But (say those on the one extream) if I joyn with one that is known to be a Separatist, an Anabaptist, an Antinomian, an Arminian, &c. his own profession doth before hand bid me to expect not only that the manner but the matter of his prayer be erroneous.