A30587:192
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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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.
Secondly, they acknowledge that Synods of others Ministers §2and Elders about them are an ordinance of Jesus Christ for the helping the Church against errors, schisms, and scandals.
Secondly, they acknowledge that Synods of others Ministers §2and Elders about them are an ordinance of Jesus Christ for the helping the Church against errors, schismes, and scandals.
3ly. That these Synods may by the power they have from §3Christ admonish men or Churches in his name, when they see evils continuing in, or growing upon the Church, and their admonitions carry with them the authority of Jesus Christ.