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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
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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.
3. They tell us that the Church and Common-wealth of the Jews were mixed in one; hence to be a stranger from the Church is expressed by being a stranger from the Common-wealth of Israel, Ephes. 2. 12. and therefore their Magistrates were Church-officers as well as Civill.
4. That the people of the Jews were brought up in a more servile way then Christ would have his Church, in the times of the Gospel, brought up in: Compulsion therefore in matters of Religion was more suitable to their condition, then it is to our Jerusalem which is free.
4. That the people of the Jews were brought up in a more servile way then Christ would have his Church, in the times of the Gospel, brought up in: Compulsion therefore in matters of Religion was more sutable to their condition, then it is to our Jerusalem which is free.