A26906:89
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.
38. Neglect not any truth of God; much less renounce it, or deny it. But yet do not take it for your duty to publish all, which you judge to be truth; nor a sin to silence many lesser truths, when the Churches peace and welfare doth require it.
39. Know which are the Great duties of a Christian life, and wherein the nature of true Religion doth consist: And then pretend not any lesser duty, against these greater; though the least when it is indeed a duty, is not to be denied or neglected.
39. Know which are the Great duties of a Christian life, and wherein the nature of true Religion doth consist: And then pretend not any lesser duty, against these greater; though the least when it is indeed a duty, is not to be denyed or neglected.
40. Labour for a sound judgement to know good from evil, least you trouble your selves and others by mistakes: Forsake not the guidance of a judicious Teacher, nor the Company of the agreeing generality of the Godly.
41. Let not the bare fervour of a Preacher, or the loudness of his voice, or affectionate utterance, draw you too far to admire or follow him, without a proportion of solid understanding and judiciousness.