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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.
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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The power that God invested Magistrates withal in matters of Religion in the Old Testament, is so full and clear in that which God gave to the Kings of Judah and Israel, that to name particulars would almost make a volume; I find many who write about this subject, spend most of their strength here, but I wholly forbear mentioning instances in this, because it is granted by all that they had power; but the argument from thence to the power of Magistrates in the times of the Gospel, prevails little with those who hold this Dividing Principle we are now speaking of. For they tell us that their power was typical, they in the exercise of such a power were types of the Kingly power of Christ, for we find glorious promises of dominion and stability made to Christ in the persons of many of those Kings.