A26906:751
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.
Lord, hide not my own miscarriages from my ⟨p. 252⟩•ight! and suffer me not to take any sin that I have committed to have been my innocency or duty, lest I should dare to father sin on God, and lest I should live and die without Repentance, and lest I should be one that continueth judgments and danger to the Land? stir up some faithful friend to tell me, with convincing evidence, where it is that I have miscarried, that Contrition may prepare me for the peace of remission? O save me from the plague of an impenitent heart, that cannot endure to be told of sin! & from that ungodly folly, which taketh the shame that Repentance casteth upon sin, to be cast upon God and Religion, which bind us to Repentance and Confession!
Nay in this place, I am not mentioning things past, so much to humble you, as necessarily to inform you, of the groundlessness of your present arguings, that you may see the truth.
Nay in this place, I am not mentioning things past, so much to humble you, as necessarily to inform you, of the groundlesness of your present arguings, that you may see the truth.
Fourthly, Note also that I lay not any miscarriages on any whole parties, (Anabaptists or others.) For I have found that all parties of Christians indeed have some good, experienced, sober, charitable persons, and some self-conceited and contentious novices, (1 Tim. 3. 6.) But I speak only of the persons that were guilty and no more.