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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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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,1 according to the power they have, as much as any? for if men will not enter into covenant, if they hold another kind of government in the Church differing from them, they will not receive them, nor communicate with them.
But doe not men in a Congregationall way urge upon others their owne conception• and practices,1 according to the power they have, as much as any? for if men will not enter into covenant, if they hold another kind of government in the Church differing from them, they will not receive them, nor communicate with them.
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