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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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Fifthly, so far as those whom God hath committed to my §5charge for instruction are capable, at some time or other I must manifest that truth of God to them that may be for their good according as I am able.
Yet this duty of profession being a duty required by an affirmative precept, though we are bound always, yet not to all times, semper, but not ad semper, we must always keep such a disposition of heart, as to be in a readiness, rather to give testimony to any truth of God, if called to it by God, then to provide for our ease or any outward comfort in this world, so as we may be able to appeal to God in the sincerity of our hearts, to judg of that high esteem we have of his truth. Lord if thou shalt make known to me now or any other time, that thy Nature may have any glory by my profession, of any truth of thine, whatsoever become of my outward peace, ease, or content, I am ready to do it for thy Names sake. There is a time, says Hugo, when nothing is to be spoken, a time when something, but there is no time when all things are to be spoken.
Yet this duty of profession being a duty required by an affirmative precept, though we are bound alwayes, yet not to all times, semper, but not ad semper, we must alwayes keep such a disposition of heart, as to be in a readiness, rather to give testimony to any truth of God, if called to it by God, then to provide for our ease or any outward comfort in this world, so as we may be able to appeal to God in the sincerity of our hearts, to judg of that high esteem we have of his truth. Lord if thou shalt make known to me now or any other time, that thy Nature may have any glory by my profession, of any truth of thine, whatsoever become of my outward peace, ease, or content, I am ready to do it for thy Names sake. There is a time, says Hugo, when nothing is to be spoken, a time when something, but there is no time when all things are to be spoken.