A26906:747
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.
And those that do causelessly separate from their ⟨p. 250⟩own lawfully called Pastors; For ubi Episcopus, ibi Ecclesia; where the true Pastor is, there the Church is (what ever place it be that they assemble in) (as Cyprian once said.)
And those that do causlesly separate from their ⟨p. 250⟩own lawfully called Pastors; For ubi Episcopus, ibi Ecclesia; where the true Pastor is, there the Church is (what ever place it be that they assemble in) (as Cyprien once said.)
And lastly, those that are of uncharitable, humorous, peevish, contentious and fiery spirits, and will stir up mutinies and •idings, and causeless divisions in any Church where they come. And truly they that think of the present state of Hartford and some other Churches in New England, (which I will not here make a Narrative of) me thinks should fear Separations, Schisms or Divisions, from o• in the Churches called Independent, as much as those of a different Discipline do as to theirs: (if not somewhat more, on several accounts.)
And lastly, those that are of uncharitable, humerous, peevish, contentious and fiery spirits, and will stir up m•tinies and •idings, and causeless divi•ions in any Church where they come. And truly they that think of the present state of Hartford and some other Churcheses in New England, (which I will not here make a Narrative of) me thinks should fear Separations, Schismes or Divisions, from o• in the Churches called Independent, as much as those of a different Discipline do as to theirs: (if not somewhat more, on several accounts.)