A30587:202
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.
We need not contend about the word Authority: But, how1 much higher is an act of authority in the Church, then for the Officers of Christ to act in the name of Christ?
- 1Answ.
If you say, private Brethren may admonish, and declare in the Name of Christ.
This is more then if any private Brethren should do the same thing; for a Synod is a solemn Ordinance of Christ, and the Elders are to be looked on as the Officers of Jesus Christ.
This is more then if any private Brethren should doe the same thing; for a Synod is a solemne Ordinance of Christ, and the Elders are to be looked on as the Officers of Jesus Christ.