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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 fourteenth.
Let us account those brethren, in whom we see godliness, and carry our selves towards them accordingly, though they will not account us.
Let us account those brethren, in whom we see godlinesse, and carry our selves towards them accordingly, though they will not account us.
Let us not be too ready to take the forfeiture of our brethren.1 The learned and godly men who lived in that Age wherein the Donatists renounced all Christian communion with other Churches, yea disclaimed any brotherhood with other Christians, yet seeing godliness in many of them, they did account them part of the Church and their brethren; thus they sought to pluck those to them, who thrust themselves from them.
LEt us not be too ready to take the forfeiture of our brethern.1 The learned and godly men who lived in that Age wherein the Donatists renounced all Christian communion with other Churches, yea disclaimed any brotherhood with other Christians, yet seeing godlinesse in many of them, they did account them part of the Church and their brethren; thus they sought to pluck those to them, who thrust themselves from them.
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