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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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First, The Officers of the Common-wealth can do nothing §1by their power, but that which the Common-wealth may do without them, if they were not; they might have kept their Government in a Democracy, and if they had pleased, done any act of power by a major vote: But it is not so in the Church; if the Church be without Officers, they cannot do that which belongs to Officers to do, they can have no Sacraments amongst them, neither can they have any spiritual jurisdiction exercised amongst them; only brotherly admonition, and with-drawing from such as walk disorderly, for their own preservation.
First, The Officers of the Common-wealth can do nothing §1by their power, but that which the Common-wealth may do without them, if they were not; they might have kept their Government in a Democracy, and if they had pleased, done any act of power by a major vote: But it is not so in the Church; if the Church be without Officers, they cannot doe that which belongs to Officers to do, they can have no Sacraments amongst them, neither can they have any spirituall jurisdiction exercised amongst them; only brotherly admonition, and with-drawing from such as walk disorderly, for their own preservation.