A26906:709
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.
Think more and talk more of your faults and failings against others; especially against Princes, magistrates, and Ministers, than of their faults and failings against you.
Think more and talk more of your faults and failings against others; especially against Princes, magistrates, and Ministers, than of their faults and fail•ngs against you.
The Reason of this Counsel is very obvious and past contradiction. Another mans sin as such is not yours: No mans sin shall damn you▪ but your own; no nor bring any proper penalty on you. Our suffering by other mens sin, is the common way to Heaven, by which Christ and his Apostles went: But our own sin is that which must have the blood and spirit of a Saviour for its cure, or it will undo us. He came to destroy the works of the Devil, and to save his people from their sins: Math. 1. 21. 1 Joh. 3. 8. But not to keep us from being persecuted by sinners: Math. 5. 10, 11. without escaping persecution ⟨p. 235⟩we may be saved, (for every one that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution, 2 Tim. 3. 12.) But except we Repent of our own sin we shall perish, Luk. 13. 3, 5. we must mourn for the sins of others (Ezek. 9. 4.) but we properly Repent of none but our own.
THe Reason of this Counsel is very obvious and past contradiction. Another mans sin as such is not yours: No mans sin shall damn you but your own; no nor bring any proper penalty on you. Our suffering by other mens sin, is the common way to Heaven, by which Christ and his Apostles went: But our own sin is that which must have the blood and spirit of a Saviour for its cure, or it will undo us. He came to destroy the works of the Devil, and to save his people from their sins: