A26906:633

The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

Name: The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for Nevil Symmons, 1670

[48], 430, [15] p. · 130k words · Wing B1234 · ESTC R1684

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DIRECTIONS FOR Weak Christians, How they may escape the troubling,… › Direction 38: DIRECT. XXXVIII.DIRECTIONS FOR VVeak Christians, How they may escape the troubling,… › Direction 38: DIRECT. XXXVIII.

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:630p. 207

Neglect not any truth of God, much less renounce it or deny it: For lying and contempt of Sacred truth is always sinful: But yet do not take it for your duty to publish all which you judge to be truth, nor a sin to silence many lesser truths, when the Churches peace and welfare doth require it.

:631p. 207

TO speak or subscribe against any truth, is not to be done on any pretence whatsoever: For lying is a sin at all times. But it is the opinion of injudicious furious spirits, that no truth is to be silenced for peace. Truth is not to be sold for carnal prosperity, but it is to be forborne for spiritual advantage, and true necessity.

TO speak or subscribe against any truth, is not to be done on any pretense whatsoever: For lying is a sin at all times. But it is the opinion of injudicious furious spirits, that no truth is to be silenced for peace. Truth is not to be sold for carnal prosperity, but it is to be forborn for spiritual advantage, and true necessity.

:632p. 207–210

First, if the publishing of all truths were at all times a duty, then all men live every moment in ten thousand sins of omission, because there ⟨p. 210⟩are more than so many truths which I am not publishing: Nay which I never shall publish whilst I live.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

Nevil Symmons

Year

1670

Size

[48], 430, [15] p.

Words

130,067

Catalogue

Wing B1234 · ESTC R1684

Text

EEBO-TCP A26906

Passages

1,298

Sections

105

Title page

The cure of church-divisions, or, Directions for weak Christians to keep them from being…

Neglect not any truth of God, much less renounce it or deny it: For lying and contempt of Sacred truth is always sinful: But yet do not take it for your duty to publish all which you judge to be truth, nor a sin to silence many lesser truths, when the Churches peace and welfare doth require it.

DIRECT. XXXIX.

Know which are the great duties of a Christian life, and wherein the nature of true Religion doth consist; And then pretend not any lesser duty, against those greater; though the least when it is indeed a duty, is not to be denied or neglected.

DIRECT. XL.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Neglect not any truth of God, much less renounce it or deny it: For lying and contempt of Sacred truth is always sinful: But yet do not take it for your duty to publish all which you judge to be truth, nor a sin to silence many lesser truths, when the Churches peace and welfare doth require it.

DIRECT. XXXIX.

Know which are the great duties of a Christian life, and wherein the nature of true Religion doth consist; And then pretend not any lesser duty, against those greater; though the least when it is indeed a duty, is not to be denied or neglected.

DIRECT. XL.