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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.
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.
The power that God invested Magistrates withall in matters of Religion in the Old Testament, is so full and cleare 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 typicall, 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.
2. They tell us, that it is no argument, because Priests and Levites had in time of the Law power in temporal things, in ordering the affairs of the State; therefore Ministers should have civill authority now: So neither is it an argument, because Magistrates had power then in spiritual things, therefore our Magistrates should have the like now.
2. They tell us, that it is no argument, because Priests and Levites had in time of the Law power in temporall things, in ordering the affairs of the State; therefore Ministers should have civill authority now: So neither is it an argument, because Magistrates had power then in spirituall things, therefore our Magistrates should have the like now.