A26906:604
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.
Obj. But (say those on the other extreme) ⟨p. 198⟩[…] ⟨p. 199⟩[…] ⟨p. 200⟩When I know before hand by their Common-Prayer-Book, what their error in worship is, and yet join in it, do I not seem to approve it?
Obj. But (say those on the other extream) ⟨p. 198⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 199⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 200⟩When I know before hand by their Common-Prayer-Book, what their errour in worship is, and yet joyn in it, do I not seem to approve it?
Answ. Do not barely affirm, but prove, that all fore-known•faults of the Pastors words in prayer are mine, if I separate not: How doth fore-knowing them make them mine. Take heed that thus you make not God the greatest sinner and the worst being in all the world.
For God fore-knoweth all mens sins; and God is present when they commit them; and he giveth them all that life and time and strength and breath, by which they do them: and he hath communion with all the prayers of the faithful in the world, what faults soever be in the words or forms: he doth not reject them for any such failings. Will you say therefore that God approveth or consenteth to all these sins?