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

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.

The sixt note added, will seale up all; when a man by reason §6or Scripture is so put to it, as he must either renounce his errour, or flye from some of his own principles, he will rather deny his principles, then yeeld himselfe convinced of his errour; yea, when those principles are of great moment. The man that doth thus is the man spoken of, Tit. 3. 11. that is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, condemned of himselfe, An Heretick after the first and second admonition reject, because he is selfe-condemned; wee must not reject every man that erres in every little thing, no not after two or three admonitions, that was a prelatical, tyrannicall rule, but he must be an Heretick, and erring so grosly, as he is self-condemned in his errour, and such a man suffers not for his conscience, when he is rejected, but for sinning against his conscience.

But who can know when a man is condemned of himself?