A26906:62
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.
11. Understand what the Power of the Keys is, and what the Pastors office is; as they are the Governors of the Church, entrusted by Christ with the power of admission and rejection: that so you may know how far you are to rest in the Pastors judgment, and may not usurp any part of their office to your selves.
11. Understand what the Power of the Keys is, and what the Pastors office is; as they are the Governours of the Church, entrusted by Christ with the power of admission and rejection: that so you may know how far you are to rest in the Pastors judgment, and may not usurp any part of their office to your selves.
12. Study well Christs gracious nature and office; and his great readiness to receive the weakest that come to him; that so you may desire a Church discipline agreeable to the Gospel.
13. Yet lest you run into the worse extreme, remember still that the destroying of sin, and the sanctifying ⟨image 22⟩of man to God, was the work of our Redeemer: And that Holiness and Peace must go together: And that our own Church-order and discipline, must be subservient to the inward spirituality and prosperity of the Church-regenerate; And no such favour must be showed to sinners as favoureth sin, and hindereth Holiness.
13. Yet lest you run into the worse extream, remember still that the destroying of sin, and the sanctifying ⟨image 22⟩of man to God, was the work of our Redeemer: And that Holiness and Peace must go together: And that our own Church-order and discipline, must be subservient to the inward spirituality and prosperity of the Church-regenerate; And no such favour must be shewed to sinners as favoureth sin, and hindereth Holiness.