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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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, 1as one meanes for peace, gives his opinion thus, Because it belongs only to God to teach the hearts of men, it is our duty alwayes to make the best interpretation of things, and to presume of every one where the contrary appeares not by manifest signes, that hee is kept from assenting by his conscience rather then by obstinacy.
- 1Quia solius Dei est corda scrutari, nostrum est in partem beni• niorem semper propendere & de quolibet praesu•ere ubi con••arium non constat manifestis indiciis, qu•d conscientia poiius quam pertina•ia ab assensu praestando reta•dotur, & inhibeatur. Adhort. ad fratern•m communionem, p. 38.
As for the peaceableness of mens dispositions, let it be judged from their carriages in other things of as great moment, wherein the temptation for the attaining their own ends is as great, yea far greater then here: Do they not carry themselves in as peaceable, gentle; self-denying way as any? Mr. Parker upon the Cross, cap. 5. sect. 14. pleads for himself and others, who could not yield in some things enjoined them, when they were accused of pride, contempt, unpeaceableness; What signs, says he, do men see in us of pride, contempt, unpeaceableness? What be our caetera opera, that bewray such a humour? Let it be named wherein we go not two mile, where we are commanded to go but one; yea, whether we go not as many miles as any shoo of the preparation of the Gospel of peace will carry us: What payment, what pain, what labour, what taxation made us ever to murmur? Survey our charges where we have laboured, if they be not found to be of the faithfullest Subjects that be in the land. We deserve no favour; nay, there is wherein