A30587:135
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.
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 retorquebi•ur ideo corona•i non licere, •uia Scriptura ••on jubeat.
Ans. In the matters of Gods worship this rule is to be urged, but not in matters civil or natural, though in their way subservient to worship, their Reason may guide very far.
But you will say, What? will you then make the Magistrate a Judge in all causes of Religion?1