On disliking those who differ from you (David Bogue)

[Reformed Covenanter]

Every man naturally thinks himself in the right, and that in the things in which others disagree with him, they are wrong. But this very sentiment tends to carry him still farther: he is apt to be displeased with those who do not think as he does, on account of the difference; and to feel towards them a dislike, which is often carried to a very unwarrantable height.

David Bogue, Discourses on the Millennium (London: T. Hamilton, 1818), p. 111.

 

[beloved7]

This can often be the case when Baptists and Presbyterians disagree with each other. We have to remember Christ’s High Priestly Prayer in John 17 and recognize that the divide need not go further than the ecclesiastical level.