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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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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.
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.
- 1Object.
I would all our controversy lay here,1 surely we should soon agree. Whosoever doth as you say, cannot be justified in so doing; some men it may be through an earnest desire of promoting what they conceived to be the mind of Christ, have been too rigid in their dealings with their Brethren. What hath been said, will show the evil of their practice as well as of others.
I would all our controversie lay here,1 surely wee should soon agree. Whosoever doth as you say, cannot be justified in so doing; some men it may be through an earnest desire of promoting what they conceived to be the mind of Christ, have been too rigid in their dealings with their Brethren. What hath been said, will shew the evill of their practice as well as of others.