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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. XLIV.
Ye take the bad example of religious men, to be one of your most perilous temptations: And therefore labour to discover especially what are the sins of Professors in the age that you live in, that you may especially watch and fortify your souls against them.
Ye take the bad example of religious men, to be one of your most pe•ilous temptations: And therefore labour to discover especially what are the sins of Professours in the age that you live in, that you may especially watch and sortifie your souls against them.
Sometimes the strictest sort run in a gang after one opinion, and sometimes after another: sometimes to overvalue free will with the Pelagians: sometimes to abuse the name and notion of free grace: sometimes they are drawn with Peter to lay about them with a private unwarranted Swor•; or by Politicians tempted into unlawful tumults: sometimes they run together into unlawful Compliances and Conformities to escape some censure or danger to the flesh: And most commonly they are hurried by Passion to follow some erroneous Leader into Schism and Divisions, which are contrary to Unity, Love, and Peace.
SOmetimes the strictest sort run in a gang after one opinion, and sometimes after another: sometimes to overvalue free will with the Pelagians: sometimes to abuse the name and notion of free grace: sometimes they are drawn with Peter to lay about them with a private unwarranted Swor•; or by Politicians tempted into unlawful tumults: sometimes they run together into unlawful Compliances and Conformities to escape some censure or danger to the flesh: And most commonly they are hurried by Passion to follow some erroneous Leader into Schisme and Divisions, which are contrary to Unity, Love, and Peace.