A30587:107
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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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.
5. The whole Church was then bound to be under the same State-government; the Laws of their State were by divine appointment; their Kings were chosen by God; but now Christ chooses his Church out of all Nations of the earth, and leaves them to the several Governments, Laws, Officers of several Nations for their Civill State.
5. The whole Church was then bound to be under the same State-government; the Laws of their State were by divine appointment; their Kings were chosen by God; but now Christ chuses his Church out of all Nations of the earth, and leaves them to the severall Governments, Lawes, Officers of severall Nations for their Civill State.