A26906:73
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.
22. Make not your selves judges of other mens actions; much less of their state, before you have a Call; or before you have sufficient knowledge of the person and of the Case.
23. Mistake not the nature of the sin of Scandal, as if it were the bare displeasing of another: when it is the laying of a stumbling-block or occasion of sinning before another.
24. Make Conscience of Scandalizing one party as well as another: and those most, who are most in danger by your offence.
25. Be not over tender of your reputation with any sort of men on earth: nor too impatient of their displeasure, censures or contempt. But live above them.
26. Use not your selves (needlessly) to the familiar company of that sort of Christians, who use to censure them that are more sober, Catholic and charitable than themselves: Unless you be as much or more, with the soberer sort, who will show you the sin and mischief of Love-killing principles and divisions.