A30587:264
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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Many think they do great service to Christ, the Church and State, if they can stir up Magistrates to suppress whatsoever they conceive are errors; it may be their hearts are upright in the main, they aim at peace, but certainly they cause much disturbance in Church and State.
Many thinke they doe great service to Christ, the Church and State, if they can stir up Magistrates to suppress whatsoever they conceive are errors; it may be their hearts are upright in the main, they aym at peace, but certainly they cause much disturbance in Church and State.
Bishop Davenant in a little Book, entitled, His Exhortation to brotherly love amongst Churches, the ninth Chap. hath this title, 1that Brotherly communion between Churches Evangelical, is not to be cut asunder, because of divers opinions about Questions controversial. And in the beginning of the 10. Chapter, This is to be premised, The bonds of the brotherly communion of Christian Churches ought not to be dissolved upon every difference of opinions, but only for the denying or opposing Fundamentals. Here see the moderation of a Prelate.
Bishop Davenant in a little Book, entituled, His Exhortation to brotherly love amongst Churches, the ninth Chap. hath this title, 1that Brotherly communion between Churches Evangelicall, is not to be cut asunder, because of divers opinions about Questions controversall. And in the beginning of the 10. Chapter, This is to be premised, The bonds of the brotherly communion of Christian Churches ought not to be dissolved upon every difference of opinions, but only for the denying or opposing Fundamentals. Here see the moderation of a Prelate.
- 1Fraternam inter Ecclesias Evangelicas communionem non esse rescindendam ob diversas de quaestionibus controversis opinions, probatur rationibus petitis a defectu legitimae potestatis, ni ministris ad eandem dissolvendam Chap. 10. Hoc mihi inprimis videtur esse praemittendum, vincula fraternae communionis non oportere dissolvi inter Ecclesias Christianas ob quaevis opinionum dissidia, sed solummodo ob funndamentalium dogmatum oppugnationem aut negationem.