A26906:741
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. LV.
When you complain of violence and persecution in others, take heed lest you show the same inward sin, by Church-persecution and cruelty against them, or any others.
When you complain of violence and persecution in others, take heed lest you shew the same inward sin, by Church-persecution and cruelty against them, or any others.
But because I know that guilt causeth impatience, and passion disposeth men to mistakes and false reports, before I proceed, I must here foretell you, 1. That I mean not by Separatists all that are so called by interested injudicious persons: But those 1. that account true Churches of Christ to be no Churches, 2. or that account it unlawful to hold Communion with those Churches, whose communion is not unlawful; because they are faulty, or because they differ from them in some opinions or circumstances of worship: 3. especially if they practise, and persuade others to practise according to these two opinions; of which the first is the higher sort of separation, and the second the lover.
BUt because I know that guilt causeth impatience, and passion disposeth men to mistakes and false reports, before I proceed, I must here foretell you, 1. That I mean not by Separatists all that are so called by interessed injudicious persons: But those 1. that account true Churches of Christ to be no Churches, 2. or that account it unlawful to hold Communion with those Churches, whose communion is not unlawful; because they are faulty, or because they differ from them in some opinions or circumstances of worship: 3. especially if they practise, and perswade others to practise according to these two opinions; of which the first is the higher sort of separation, and the second the lover.