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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.
In this very thing lies the very knot of the controversy between those who are for the Presbyterial, and those who are for the Congregational way, in reference to the matter in hand, namely the means to, reducing from, or keeping out errors and heresies from the Church, in this lies the dividing business; But I beseech you consider what a punctum we divide here, and judg whether the cause of division in this thing be so great as there can be no help, and whether if an evil spirit prevail not amongst us, we may not join; For,
In this very thing lies the very knot of the controversie between those who are for the Presbyteriall, and those who are for the Congregationall way, in reference to the matter in hand, namely the means to, reducing from, or keeping out errours and heresies from the Church, in this lyes the dividing businesse; But I beseech you consider what a punctum we divide here, and judg whether the cause of division in this thing be so great as there can be no help, and whether if an evil spirit prevail not amongst us, we may not joyne; For,
First, consider, what is there in this delivering to Satan? which is a seventh thing that our Brethren think may hopefully prevail with mens consciences, when the six former cannot.
First, consider, what is there in this delivering to Satan? which is a seventh thing that our Brethren thinke may hopefully prevail with mens consciences, when the sixe former cannot.
Yes, say they, for by this they are put out of the Kingdom of Christ into the Kingdom of Satan, and this will terrify.