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A26906 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. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1670 (1670) Wing B1234; ESTC R1684 258,570 520

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old can do And if you extend the case to all other parts of the Ministery where the reason is the same they will say what reverence is due to such or why should we maintain and honour men for doing no more than our children can do And the Popish devise to make a disparity by keeping the people in ignorance is the basest and most pernicious plot of all When the Pastors instead of excelling the people would keep down the people from increasing in their knowledge and expression this is so notorious a discovery of envy pride and malignity conjunct that the people presently flye from such Pastors as supposing them to be ministers of the Devil because they see them bear his image What do we teach them for if we would not have them learn and profit What greater honour can a Teacher have than to make his Schollars as wise and able as himself Every one who is a child of Light and believeth in him who is the Light of the world will suspect that man to be a Minister of the Prince of darkness who is a malicious adverstry of Light This is that brand of the Roman iniquity the hindering men from the reading of the Scriptures and magnifying ignorance which maketh men so commonly think them to be the Ecclesia malignantium and the Antichristian brood Thus Cardinal Wolsey declaimed against the Art of Printing as that which would take down the honour and profit of the Priesthood by making the people as wise as they It is not by keeping them down or envying their abilities that we must keep our distance from the people but by rising higher our selves and excelling them in all ministerial gifts Else why should we be thought any fitter to be their Teachers and Guides than they to be ours Yea though we excel them in all these abilities it will not serve turn to the ends of our Ministery unless we also excel them in holiness and every Christian vertue The Devil knoweth more than Ministers And if he have a tongue to speak he wanteth not utterance He is the most excellent and honourable who is likest to God and hath most of his image And God hath more proposed himself to mans imitation in Goodness than in Greatness He hath not said Be Great for the Lord your God is Great but walk in the Light as he is in the Light 1 Iob. 1. 7. and Be holy for the Lord your God is holy 1 Pet. 1. 16. Lev. 20. 7. 19. 2. 21. 8. To be Great and Bad is to be able to do mischief To be Learned ingenious and Bad is to be wise to do evil and a crafty and subtle instrument of the devil Ier. 4. 22. It was no laudable description of Elymas Act. 13. 8 10. O full of subtlety and all mischiefs thou child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness wilt thou not cease to pervert the right wayes of the Lord Satan would never transform himself into an Angel of Light nor his ministers into the Ministers of Righteousness nor would Pharisees and hypocrites cover oppression by long prayers if Light Righteousness and long prayers were not laudable in themselves and necessary in the preachers of the word of God and had not a goodness in them capable of being a cloak to their iniquity 2 Cor. 11. 14 15. Mat. 23. 14. God is Light 1 Iob. 1. 5. And God is Holy If therefore Satan or any hypocrite would credit their falshood and wickedness they must pretend to Light and Holiness And he that will keep up the true honour of his Ministery and be accepted with God and reverenced by good men m●st do it by real Light and Holiness An ungodly Minister hath a radicated enmity to the holy doctrine which he preacheth and to the holy duties and life which he exhorteth the people to And how well how sincerely how readily how faithfully they are like to do the work which they are enemies to you may easily judge The carnal mind is enmity to God for it is not subject to his law nor indeed can be Rom. 8. 6 7 8. I kno● that they are not enemies to the honour nor to the maintenance and therefore may force themselves to do much of the outside of the work But where there is an inward enmity to the life and ends of it we can expect but a formal unwilling and unconstant discharge of such unpleasing duty Truth is for Goodness The Knowledge which maketh you not Good is lost and hath mist its end If therefore your Love to God and man your mortification and unblameableness of life your heavenly mindedness be no greater than the peoples or perhaps much less do not wonder if you lose your honour with them and if you grow contemptible in their eyes Mal. 1. 10. 14. I have no pleasure in you saith the Lord Cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupt thing Mal. 2. And now O ye Priests this commandement is for you If ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name I will send a curse upon you The Law of truth was in Levi's mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips He walked with me in peace and equity and did turn away many from iniquity For the Priests lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts But ye are departed out of the way ye have caused many to stumble at the Law ye have corrupted the Covenant of Levi saith the Lord of hosts Therefore also have I made you contemptible and base before all the people according as ye have not kept my wayes but have been partial in the Law 1 Sam. 2. 17. 24 30. The sin of the young men was very great before the Lord for men abhorred the offering of the Lord Ye make the Lords people to transgress Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at my offering which I have commanded I said indeed that thy house should walk before me for ever But now the Lord saith Be it far from me for them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed If as Moses you stand nearer to God than the people do you must be so much holier than they and your faces must shine with the beames of God in the peoples eyes They that with open face behold in Christ as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor. 3. 7. 17 18. If therefore by your low and common parts and carnal lives you make your selves contemptible instead of exclaiming against the people cry out against your selves and lament your sins and the more you have aggravated the crimes of Schism and other errors in your flocks the more penitently bewail your