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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
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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.
CHAP. VII.
They who are for a Congregational way, do not hold absolute liberty for all Religions.
They who are for a Congregationall way, doe not hold absolute liberty for all Religions.
But for all that hath been said, Are there not yet a sort of men, who though they would colour over things, & put fair glosses upon their opinions and ways, saying they would not have such an absolute liberty as to have all religions suffered, yet do they not come near this in their tenets and practise?1 Do not men in a Congregational way take away all Ecclesiastical means that should hinder such an absolute liberty as this? for they hold, every congregation hath sole Church power within it self, and they are not tied to give any account to others, but merely in an arbitrary way, will not this ⟨p. 24⟩bring in a toleration of all Religions, and a very Anarchy
BUt for all that hath been said, Are there not yet a sort of men, who though they would colour over things, & put fair glosses upon their opinions and ways, saying they would not have such an absolute liberty as to have all religions suffered, yet do they not come near this in their tenets and practise?