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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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Thirdly, I shall propound some rules of Direction, to show ⟨p. 76⟩§3in what manner a man should make profession of what he conceives to be truth, though it be different from his Brethren.
Thirdly, I shall propound some rules of Direction, to shew ⟨p. 76⟩§3in what manner a man should make profession of what he conceives to be truth, though it be different from his Brethren.
For the first. Certainly profession in some things is very necessary.
Rom. 10. 10. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Confession is here joined to believing, as necessary to salvation. This I conceive to be the meaning of those places which hold forth the necessity of Baptism, He that believes and is baptized,1 shall be saved. Augustine in one of his Sermons De Tempore, sayes, We cannot be saved, except we profess our faith outwardly for the salvation of others. And Christ, Mar. 8. 38. says, Whosoever shall be ashamed of him and of his words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with his holy Angels. And it is observable,