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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.
Wherefore for your help in this thing, these two things are to be premised.
1. That the only way the Church hath to keep down errors or heresies is spiritual; as for other means they are extrinsical to the Church; this all acknowledge: as for subjection to the Magistrate, if he pleases to interpose, to that both they and we must yield.
1. That the only way the Church hath to keep downe errors or heresies is spirituall; as for other means they are extrinsicall to the Church; this all acknowledge: as for subjection to the Magistrate, if he pleases to interpose, to that both they and we must yeeld.
2. The virtue of spiritual power works not upon the outward man, by its prevailing upon conscience; therefore so far as men are conscientious, so far it works, and no farther.
2. The vertue of spiritual power works not upon the outward man, by its prevailing upon conscience; therefore so far as men are conscientious, so far it works, and no farther.