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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.
Let me also on the other side speak to them who plead their consciences.1
- 1Directions to them who plead their consciences.
First, take heed you rest not in this as an empty plea, setting it as a Bulwark against any thing that shall be said to you: why, ⟨p. 41⟩it is my conscience, and who hath to do with my conscience? and so think you need look no farther, nor give any other account to your Brethren then this: This is to abuse your conscience, and the indulgence of God, and the respect he would have men show to the consciences of his people; this is a hardening conscience against the truth, no true tenderness of it.
First, take heed you rest not in this as an empty plea, setting it as a Bulwark against any thing that shal be said to you: why, ⟨p. 41⟩it is my conscience, and who hath to do with my conscience? and so think you need look no farther, nor give any other account to your Brethren then this: This is to abuse your conscience, and the indulgence of God, and the respect he would have men shew to the consciences of his people; this is a hardning conscience against the truth, no true tenderness of it.
Secondly, If Conscience be such a thing as none must have §2