A26906:835
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.
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.
Fifthly, it is not superstition to do the same material thing, which another doth superstitiously; ⟨p. 286⟩if we have not the same superstitious conceit of it as he hath. If a Papist should anoint the sick, as a Sacrament, and a Protestant do it as a medicine, the former is superstition, and not the later. And so in other things.
Fifthly, it is not superstition to do the same material thing, which another doth superstitiously; ⟨p. 286⟩if we have not the same superstitious conceit of it as he hath. If a Papist should ananoint the sick, as a Sacrament, and a Protestant do it as a medicine, the former is snperstition, and not the later. And so in other things.
Sixthly, Whether that indifferent thing remain indifferent to our use, which others use to superstition, is a case which a judicious collation of circumstances must determine. His superstitious use doth not make it simply a sin in any other, who hath none of his false conceits and ends: (else some superstitious persons so abusing meat and drink and clothes, and all things in the world might make all things become unlawful to us: or at least deprive us of all our liberty in things indifferent.)
Sixthly, Whether that indifferent thing remain indifferent to our use, which others use to superstition, is a case which a judicious collation of circumstances must determine. His superstitious use doth not make it simply a sin in any other, who hath none of his false conceits and ends: (else some superstitious persons so abusing meat and drink and cloaths, and all things in the world might make all things become unlawful to us: or at least deprive us of all our liberty in things indifferent.)