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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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Yea,b none is to be cast out of communion, but for that which if whole Churches were guilty of, we must refuse communion with, yea with all the Churches in the world, if they could be supposed to be so far left of Christ, as to be guilty of the same thing; If this be so, when a Church is about casting any out of communion, it need be wary, and not presently fall upon him, because there is something evil in him; and if the Church should be so, the civill Magistrate much more, whose care of a mans spiritual estate is not so immediate and full as the Churches is.
Yea,b none is to be cast out of communion, but for that which if whole Churches were guilty of, we must refuse communion with, yea with all the Churches in the world, if they could be supposed to be so far left of Christ, as to be guilty of the same thing; If this be so, when a Church is about casting any out of communion, it need be wary, and not presently fall upon him, because there is something evill in him; and if the Church should be so, the civill Magistrate much more, whose care of a mans spirituall estate is not so immediate and full as the Churches is.
- bHominem a communione aliorum Christi quorum excludere licet propter haeresim damnabilem, in qua est proprio judicio condemnatus, aut de per•inacia convictus, non licet propter errorem in q•em aliena fraude deductus est, quemque nulla pertinaci animositate, sed imaginatione veritatis & p•etatis illusus defendit. Daven. ad pacem Eccl. adhort. c. 9.
From what hath been said these 2. consequences are clear: First, Articles or rules for doctrine or practise in matters of Religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is a very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them: This in all ages hath caused divisions, and exceeding disturbances in the Churches of Christ.