A26906:833
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.
Secondly, That the matter of this later sort of superstition is either that which God forbiddeth and so is displeased with; or that which he hath made and holdeth indifferent; and so is neither pleased or displeased with, in any moral consideration, in it self considered. He that offereth God a sacrifice of sin (or things prohibited) or of a worthless and indifferent thing, and taketh God to be pleased with the later, or not displeased with the former, doth indeed displease him by either of these conceits. And the general prohibition of not adding or diminishing, rightly understood, may notify things as under the former head.
Secondly, That the matter of this later sort of superstition is either that which God forbiddeth and so is displeased with; or that which he hath made and holdeth indifferent; and so is neither pleased or displeased with, in any moral consideration, in it self considered. He that of•ereth God a ••crifice of sin (or things prohibited) or of a worthless and indifferent thing, and taketh God to be pleased with the later, or not displeased with the former, doth indeed displease him by either of these conceits. And the general prohibition of not adding or diminishing, rightly understood, may notifie things as under the former head.
Thirdly, But it is no superstition to hold a good thing to be good; a bad thing to be bad; or an indifferent thing to be indifferent.
Fourthly, Nor yet to determine of those circumstances of worship which God hath left to humane determination; being made necessary in genere by nature or scripture: Nor yet to judge that God is pleased with such a prudent determination.