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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. 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; 1If it be therefore said it is lawful because the Scripture doth not forbid, it is therefore unlawful because the Scripture doth not command.
But we have often heard that of Tertullian urged; 1If it be therefore said it is lawfull because the Scripture doth not forbid, it is therefore unlawfull because the Scripture doth not command.
- 1S• ideo dicetur ronari licere, quia non prohibeat Scriptura; que retorquebiur ideo coronai non licere, uia Scriptura on jubeat.