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.

DIRECT. XVIII.

Spend and be spent for your peoples good; and do all the good that possibly you can for their bodies as well as for their souls: and think nothing that you have too dear to win them: that they may see that you are truly Fathers to them, and that their well-fare is your chiefest care and business.

ALl men love themselvs; and naturally and ne∣cessarily love those that they know do great∣ly love them. And all men are sensible of their bodily concernments, and consequently of that good that is done to their bodies: He that set∣teth himself to relieve the poor, and to put on o∣thers to relieve them, to visit the sick, and help those that are in trouble, and to comfort the af∣flicted, to do what good he can to all, and hurt to none, shall find that their ears will be open to his doctrine, and that they will follow him to∣wards heaven with much less resistance, than o∣therwise he must expect. Few such Ministers do ever want success of their labours. And the coveto••s, close handed, self-seeking and cruel, are alwayes hated. And let his mony perish with him, who thinketh it better than the souls of men, and the work of God.