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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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Seventhly, This will be a means to bring gross ignorance §7upon the face of the Churches & of the world: For, first, if men shall not be suffered to profess or practice otherwise then Governors in Church or State shall determine, they will not take pains to find out the truth themselves, but rather take things implicitly, wch is the easiest way; they will think it to little purpose to take pains in examining things, when after ⟨p. 64⟩all is done, they must be bound up at least in their profession and practice, to what either is or shall be determined by those who have power of rule in their hands.
Seventhly, This will be a means to bring grosse ignorance §7upon the face of the Churches & of the world: For, first, if men shall not be suffered to profess or practice otherwise then Governors in Church or State shall determine, they will not take pains to find out the truth themselves, but rather take things implicitely, wch is the easiest way; they wil think it to little purpose to take pains in examining things, when after ⟨p. 64⟩all is done, they must be bound up at least in their profession and practice, to what either is or shall be determined by those who have power of rule in their hands.
Our late Prelates design was to bring in ignorance, that they might with the more freedom rule over us as they pleased; and in nothing did they drive on this design more, then in the practice of this power, which they took to themselves to command things doubtful and controversial, and by violence to urge their commands upon people: by which, had their power continued, gross ignorance would soon have bin spread over the face of the land. From whence hath come the gross ignorance of Popery, but from the prevailing of this principle? By which the people have been brought in such subjection under their guides, that they have lost their understandings in the matters of Religion.