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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.
If it shall be said, But surely they do not agree so far, they do not come up to these six things mentioned. To that I answer, I do not in these deliver only mine own judgment, but by what I know of the judgments of all those Brethren with whom I have occasion to converse by conference both before and since; I stand charged to make it good to be their judgements also; yea, it hath been both theirs and mine for divers years, even then when we never thought to have enjoyed our our own Land again; and if it be so, then let the Lord be judg between us and our Brethren, for those loud and grievous out-cries there hath been against us in this thing.
If it shall be said, But surely they do not agree so far, they do not come up to these six things mentioned. To that I answer, I do not in these deliver only mine own judgment, but by what I know of the judgments of all those Brethren with whom I have occasion to converse by conference both before and since; I stand charged to make it good to be their judgements also; yea, it hath been both theirs and mine for divers years, even then when we never thought to have enjoyed our our own Land again; and if it be so, then let the Lord be judg between us and our Brethren, for those lowd and grievous out-cryes there hath been against us in this thing.
But if the difference be so little, why do they not come in?
But if the difference be so little, why doe they not come in?
We come as far as we have light to guide us, we dare not step one step in the dark; if we do, we shall certainly fall into sin; whatsoever else we fall into, what ever the thing be to others, it would be our sin, if there were no other reason, but because we venture in the dark. We sail up to our Brethren as far as we can see the Line of Truth, and beyond it we dare not venture in the least.