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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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We have given rules to find out those who only pretend conscience,1 and if by those, or the like, it does not appear, but that men are indeed conscientious in their way, we should judg charitably of them; you think much if those be not admitted to communion with Christ and his Saints, when they profess godliness in word and life, and nothing appears to the contrary; why then should you think much to tolerate those as conscientious, who profess it in words and life, and nothing appears to the contrary.
We have given rules to find out those who onely pretend conscience,1 and if by those, or the like, it does not appeare, but that men are indeed conscientious in their way, we should judg charitably of them; you think much if those be not admitted to communion with Christ and his Saints, when they professe godlinesse in word and life, and nothing appears to the contrary; why then should you think much to tolerate those as conscientious, who professe it in words and life, and nothing appears to the contrary.
- 1Answ.
Bishop Davenant in that exhortation to peace before quoted, 1as one means for peace, gives his opinion thus, Because it belongs only to God to teach the hearts of men, it is our duty always to make the best interpretation of things, and to presume of every one where the contrary appears not by manifest signs, that he is kept from assenting by his conscience rather then by obstinacy.
Bishop Davenant in that exhortation to peace before quoted, 1