Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

2ly. Compulsion in such things as we are speaking of, is to §2strain Justice so high, as to make it summa justitia, which is the degeneration of it: As Physicians say of the uttermost degree of health, it is a beginning of sickness: If Justice be ⟨p. 58⟩wound up a peg too high, it breaks: Though Justice were to be managed by the most holy, wise, self-denying, and meek men upon the earth, yet there would be much danger in winding it up to the highest; for it is administered by men full of infirmities, to men full of infirmities, therefore God will not have it strained too high, he will rather have charity to be above Justice, then Justice to be above charity. This I have out of Luther, though he was a man of a fiery spirit, he could tell how to contend where there was cause; yet in an Epistle that he writes to the Divines of Nuremberg, ¹upon occasion of dissentions risen amongst them, he hath this passage, Judgement must serve, not rule over charity; otherwise it is one of those four things that Solomon says troubles the earth, namely, a servant ruling, or the Maid heir to her Mistress; if therefore you would have peace says he, charity must rule over justice, you must not suffer justice to rule over charity.

2ly. Compulsion in such things as we are speaking of, is to §2straine Justice so high, as to make it summa justitia, which is the degeneration of it: As Physitians say of the uttermost degree of health, it is a beginning of sickness: If Justice be ⟨p. 58⟩wound up a peg too high, it breaks: Though Justice were to be managed by the most holy, wise, self-denying, and meek men upon the earth, yet there would be much danger in winding it up to the highest; for it is administred by men full of infirmities, to men full of infirmities, therefore God will not have it strained too high, he will rather have charity to be above Justice, then Justice to be above charity. This I have out of Luther, though he was a man of a fiery spirit, he could tell how to contend where there was cause; yet in an Epistle that he writes to the Divines of Norimberg,