A30587:162
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.
Eighthly, a man may bring himself under both Civill and §8Ecclesiastical sword, not only for sins destructive and injurious to our brother, but for sins against God, if they be also against the light of nature, as blasphemy and gross idolatry: Though the Sun be down, if you allow your servant a candle to work ordinary work by, and he put it out, he cannot plead he could not work, because it was dark: Man at first had Sun-light to work by, but our Sun is down, yet we have the candle of the light of nature; if we sin against that, our darkness can be no plea for us: and if he be a professed Christian, and sins against the common light of Christianity, which he cannot but see, except he will shut his eyes, he is to be dealt with as a man that sins against the light of Nature.
Eighthly, a man may bring himself under both Civill and §8Ecclesiasticall sword, not only for sins destructive and injurious to our brother, but for sinns against God, if they be also against the light of nature, as blasphemy and grosse idolatry: Though the Sunn be down, if you allow your servant a candle to work ordinary work by, and he put it out, he cannot plead he could not work, because it was dark: Man at first had Sun-light to work by, but our Sun is down, yet we have the candle of the light of nature; if we sinn against that, our darkness can be no plea for us: and if he be a professed Christian, and sins against the common light of Christianity, which he cannot but see, except he will shut his eyes, he is to be dealt with as a man that sins against the light of Nature.
Though such as are not Christians cannot by violence by §9compelled to profess Christian Religion, yet notwithstanding any plea of their conscience, they may be restrained, & that by violence, if other means will not do it, from an open blaspheming Christ, and the Scriptures, or doing any acts of open dishonour to them• acts of open dishonour to God done by any whomsoever, as they are abominable, so such as have loved God and Christ, have accounted them unsufferable.