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Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…
Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughs.Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed for Robert Dawlman, 1653
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But doth not this then exclude him from the exercise of any power in the matters of Christian Religion?1
- 1Object. 9.
No,1 for God in the exercise of his power governing the world, hath a special aim at the promoting the Kingdom of his Son Christ the Mediator: Therefore Magistrates exercising this power of God, ought to aim at these ends, that God himself aims at in the exercise of his own power, that is, to be useful to Christs Government in his Church, and for the good of his Church: God in all his ways, from the beginning of the world, hath aimed at the setting up his Son to be King upon his holy Hill, at the promoting of the glory of him who is God-man: and if his Ministers do not make use of their power to this end, when this Kingdom of his Son comes to be revealed to them, he will require it at their hands.
No,1 for God in the exercise of his power governing the world, hath a speciall ayme at the promoting the Kingdom of his Sonne Christ the Mediator: Therefore Magistrates exercising this power of God, ought to ayme at these ends, that God himselfe aymes at in the exercise of his own power, that is, to be usefull to Christs Government in his Church, and for the good of his Church: God in all his wayes, from the beginning of the world, hath aymed at the setting up his Son to be King upon his holy Hill, at the promoting of the glory of him who is God-man: and if his Ministers doe not make use of their power to this end, when this Kingdome of his Sonne comes to be revealed to them, he will require it at their hands.
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