A26906:879
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.
If through the faults of either side or both, you cannot meet together in the same particular Church or place, yet preserve that unity in Faith, Love and practise, which all neighbour Churches should maintain with one another, and use not your different Assemblies to revile each other, and kill your Love.
ALL distances are undesirable and tend to more: But yet our Unity lieth not so much in meeting in one place, as in being of one Mind, and Heart and Life: Many occasions may warrant our corporal distance; but Heart-divisions should be most avoided. It is the principles and motives upon which you withdraw, which are more considerable than the local distance.
ALL distances are undesirable and tend to more: But yet our Unity lyeth not so much in meeting in one place, as in being of one Mind, and Heart and Life: Many occasions may warrant our corporal distance; but Heart-divisions should be most avoided. It is the principles and motives upon which you withdraw, which are more considerable than the local distance.
Therefore on one side let us take heed how we •nchurch and unchristen any with whom we do not corporally join: And on the other side, let us take heed how we revile them all as Sectaries and Separatists, who do not join with our assemblies: But let us know the reason of their practise before we peremptorily judge them.
Therefore on one side let us take heed how we •nchurch and unchristen any with whom we do not corporally joyn: And on the other side, let us take heed how we revile them all as Sectaries and Separatists, who do not joyn with our assemblies: But let us know the reason of their practise before we peremptorily judge them.