A26906:613
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. XXXVI.
Yet know what Pastors you may own, and what not, and what Church-communion you may remove from or forbear: And think not that I am persuading you to make no difference.
Yet know what Pastors you may own, and what not, and what Church-communion you may remove from or forbear: And think not that I am perswading you to make no difference.
This is a point that I have more largely handled elsewhere, and can give you now but these brief hints, lest I be too tedious.
THis is a point that I have more largely handled elsewhere, and can give you now but these brief hints, lest I be too tedious.
First, He that is not at all able to do the essential ⟨p. 203⟩works of the Ministry, that is, to teach the people the Christian faith, and a holy life, and to pray and praise God with them, and administer the Sacraments, and in some measure oversee the manners of the flock, is no Minister, nor to be owned: For he wanteth the essential qualifications: As an illiterate man can be no Schoolmaster, nor he a Physician, a Pilot, an Architect, who is utterly ignorant of their work.