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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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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.
Now then see what difference there is in the Congregational way from the Presbyterian, for the prevailing with mens Consciences, to reduce to the trueth those who go astray from it.
Now then see what difference there is in the Congregationall way from the Presbyterian, for the prevailing with mens Consciences, to reduce to the trueth those who goe astray from it.
First, Those in the Congregational may acknowledge that §1they are bound in conscience to give account of their ways to Churches about them, or to any other who shall require it; this is not in an arbitrary way, but as a duty that they owe to God and man.
First, Those in the Congregationall may acknowledg that §1they are bound in conscience to give account of their ways to Churches about them, or to any other who shall require it; this is not in an arbitrary way, but as a duty that they owe to God and man.