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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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God hath so graciously ordered things for the body,1 that things necessary for life are not many, nor costly; the greatest stir in the world is about things not necessary. So for the soul.
God hath so graciously ordered things for the body,1 that things necessary for life are not many, nor costly; the greatest stir in the world is about things not necessary. So for the soule.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Arist. pol. l. •.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Arist. pol. l. •.
A second consequence from what hath been said, is; we see §2hence who is most for peace; one professeth what he is convinced of to be a truth and a duty, if it be not necessary, he is not to force it upon his Brethren, though he had never so much power in the Church or State to back him. The other holds this principle, That whatsoever he thinks to be a duty, he must force it upon his brethren, not only by the power of the Church, but he must call in the power of the Magistrate to back him in it.
But do not men in a Congregational way urge upon others their own conception and practices,