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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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Secondly, the liberties these men seek for, are either evil §2or good; If evil, oh how dearly do they buy that which is evil, with bringing the guilt of all that evil that comes from our divisions upon themselves; you need not wish any enemy more evil upon his head then this; certainly such a man hath load enough upon him.
Secondly, the liberties these men seek for, are either evill §2or good; If evill, oh how dearly do they buy that which is evill, with bringing the guilt of all that evil that comes from our divisions upon themselves; you need not wish any enemy more evil upon his head then this; certainly such a man hath load enough upon him.
But if those liberties they seek be good, or but supposed by them to be so, why then should they fear a right settling of things? what ever is good, can be no enemy unto good. That Scripture, Rom. 13. 3. is enough to keep their hearts from fearing, the right ordered power of authority, especially from fearing it so far, as by the fear of it, to be driven into such a desperate guilt of wickedness as this is, to desire or endeavour the continuance of such public mischief for their own ends. Rulers, saith the Text, are not a terror to good works, but to evil; wilt thou then not be afraid of their power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. Surely then the power was as formidable to any thing a christian heart could suppose good, as now any power is like to be that we have to deal with.
But if those liberties they seek be good, or but supposed by them to be so, why then should they feare a right setling of things? what ever is good, can be no enemy unto good. That Scripture, Rom. 13. 3. is enough to keep their hearts from fearing, the right ordered power of authority, especially from fearing it so farre, as by the feare of it, to be driven into such a desperate guilt of wickednesse as this is, to desire or endeavour the continuance of such publique mischiefe for their own ends. Rulers, saith the Text, are not a terrour to good works, but to evil; wilt thou then not be afraid of their power? doe that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. Surely then the power was as formidable to any thing a christian heart could suppose good, as now any power is like to be that we have to deale with.