A26906:762
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.
Answ. I pray you think on that again. First, Is not the privilege of the Church, •ette• than the privileges of the Commonwealth? as the soul is better than the body? Secondly, Is it not a deeper accusation to charge one to be ungodly and profane, than to charge him only to be schismatical?
Answ. I pray you think on that again. First, Is not the priviledge of the Church, •ette• than the priviledges of the Commonwealth? as the soul is better than the body? Secondly, Is it not a deeper accusation to charge one to be ungodly and prophane, than to charge him only to be schismatical?
Obj. But charity must not be blind: They are profane: I charge them truly: •ut I am not schismatical or heretical; but they accuse me falsely.
Obj. But charity must not be blind: They are prophane: I charge them truly: •ut I am not schismatical or heretical; but they accuse me falsly.
Answ. You say so, and they say the same of you. They say that you are schismatical, but they are not profane. Now how shall a stander by know which of you is in the right? Doubtless by the witnesses and evidences: They try you in some Court or before some Magistrate before they punish you. You never try them, […] hear them speak for themselves, nor examine […] witness publicly against them, •or allow them any Church-justice, but avoid their Communion upon reports or pretence of private knowledge. They judge you personally one by one: You condemn whole Prishes in the mp, […]: They condemn you as for a […] crme: But you condemn them without charging any one crime upon them, because they have not yet given you a satisfying proof of their godliness; They say, we prove you guilty: You say, you have […] proved your selves innocent. It a […]