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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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CHAP. II.
The evil of dividing between God and any thing else.
The evill of dividing between God and any thing else.
This people would give God something, and their idols something, and so think to please both, 2 King. 7. 33. They feared the Lord, and served their Idols. Thus Judah in the days of Josiah, Zeph. 1. 5. sware by the Lord, and by Malcham; Swearing is a part of Gods worship, therefore no humane instituted Religious ceremony ought to be joined with it, no more then with the Sacrament, or any other divine worship, no creature should share in it, but they joined Malcham, that is their King. The worship and service proper to God hath been too much divided between God and the Kings of the Earth; but here it's probable is meant their Idol, to which they gave a Kingly power over them, their Idol Moloch had his name from hence.
THis people would give God something, and their idols something, and so think to please both, 2 King. 7. 33. They feared the Lord, and served their Idolls. Thus Judah in the days of Josiah, Zeph. 1. 5. sware by the Lord, and by Malcham; Swearing is a part of Gods worship, therefore no humane instituted Religious ceremony ought to be joyned with it, no more then with the Sacrament, or any other divine worship, no creature should share in it, but they joyned Malcham, that is their King. The worship and service proper to God hath been too much divided between God and the Kings of the Earth; but here it's probable is meant their Idoll, to which they gave a Kingly power over them, their Idoll Moloch had his name from hence.