Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

5ly. When a man is not willing to make use of means to inform his conscience, not of those means that are not against his own principles, but goes on peremptorily and stoutly: Surely, when we see many of our Brethren differing from us, our respect to them should gain so much at least from us, that if there by any means left unused, for the further ⟨p. 33⟩trying our opinions, or informing our judgements, we should make use of that means, a conscientious heart will do so.

5ly. When a man is not willing to make use of meanes to inform his conscience, not of those meanes that are not against his owne principles, but goes on peremptorily and stoutly: Surely, when we see many of our Brethren differing from us, our respect to them should gain so much at least from us, that if there by any means left unused, for the further ⟨p. 33⟩trying our opinions, or informing our judgements, we should make use of that meanes, a conscientious heart will doe so.

The sixth note added, will seal up all; when a man by reason §6or Scripture is so put to it, as he must either renounce his error, or fly from some of his own principles, he will rather deny his principles, then yield himself convinced of his error; yea, when those principles are of great moment. The man that doth thus is the man spoken of, Tit. 3. 11. that is [Greek or Hebrew], condemned of himself, An Heretic after the first and second admonition reject, because he is self-condemned; we must not reject every man that errs in every little thing, no not after two or three admonitions, that was a prelatical, tyrannical rule, but he must be an Heretic, and erring so grossly, as he is self-condemned in his error, and such a man suffers not for his conscience, when he is rejected, but for sinning against his conscience.