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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
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.
This is the strength of this hold the Devil gets into,1 he thinks he gets so deep, that you cannot get to it to find him out, and as for Gods displeasure who knows their consciences, these men will venture that. But by this Scripture, Tit. 3. it is clear, that a mans conscience may be so far seen into, as there may be a judgment passed upon a man, that he is a self-condemned man: To what purpose otherwise serves this Scripture? it is not like this Heretic would acknowledge that he was self-condemned, but yet the Apostle makes this the ground why he should be rejected; As if he should say, You see he will go against his own principles, against what his conscience tells him is truth, merely to maintain a wicked Heresy that he is infected withal; let him therefore plead what he will, reject him, for his own conscience condemns him, and GOD is greater then his Conscience, and knows all things.
This is the strength of this hold the Devil gets into,1 he thinks he gets so deep, that you cannot get to it to find him out, and as for Gods displeasure who knows their consciences, these men will venture that. But by this Scripture, Tit. 3. it is clear, that a mans conscience may be so far seen into, as there may be a judgment passed upon a man, that he is a self-condemned man: To what purpose otherwise serves this Scripture? it is not like this Heretick would acknowledg that he was self-condemned, but yet the Apostle makes this the ground why he should be rejected; As if he should say, You see he wil go against his own principles, against what his conscience tells him is truth, meerly to maintain a wicked Heresie that he is infected withall; let him therefore plead what he will, reject him, for his own conscience condemns him, and GOD is greater then his Conscience, and knowes all things.
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