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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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1. When the Apostles were convented before Civil Authority about matters of Religion, we never find that they pleaded for themselves, You have no power to meddle with us in the things of Religion, they belong to Jesus Christ only who is our King, & to that government he hath set in his Church; No, their plea was only the justness of their cause, that what they professed and preached was the truth of God, they did it in obedience to God.
2. If all men be bound to improve all the abilities, gifts, talents they have for the propagation of the Gospel, the Magistrates are bound to improve those which are peculiar to them; If a man hath more wisdom then others, or a greater estate, or more friends, he is to make use of all these for helps to the furtherance of Religion; if then a man hath more power then others, he is to improve that likewise, not only by countenancing what he conceiveth to be right, but by all other means according to the dictates of Reason, not forb•• by Scripture.
2. If all men be bound to improve all the abilities, gifts, talents they have for the propagation of the Gospel, the Magistrates are bound to improve those which are peculiar to them; If a man hath more wisdom then others, or a greater estate, or more friends, he is to make use of all these for helps to the furtherance of Religion; if then a man hath more power then others, he is to improve that likewise, not onely by countenancing what he conceiveth to be right, but by all other means according to the dictates of Reason, not forb•• by Scripture.
But we have often heard that of Tertullian urged;