A26906:64
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.
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.
14. Though your Governors are the Judges, what persons shall be of your public-Church-Communion; yet it is you that must judge who are fit or unfit for your private familiarity.
14. Though your Governours are the Iudges, what persons shall be of your publick-Church-Communion; yet it is you that must judge who are fit or unfit for your private familiarity.
15. Understand how much it hath pleased God to lay all mens happiness or misery upon their own choice: And seek not to alter this order of God.
15. Vnderstand how much it hath pleased God to lay all mens happiness or misery upon their own choice: And seek not to alter this order of God.