Puritans On Divisions

Would Christ not have His coat rent, and can He endure to have His body rent?

—Thomas Watson

What! at peace with the Father, and at war with His children? It cannot be.

—John Flavel

Fractions always breed factions.

—Richard Sibbes

It is a fearful sin to make a rent and a hole in Christ’s mystical body because there is a spot in it.

—Samuel Rutherford

If we saw God, and heaven, and hell before us, do you not think it would effectually reconcile our differences and heal our unbrotherly exasperations and divisions? Would it not hold back the hands that itch to be using violence against those that are not in all things of their minds? What abundance of vain controversies would it reconcile! As the coming in of the master doth part the strife among school boys; so the sight of God would frighten us from contentions.

—Richard Baxter

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