A30587:374
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
CHAP. XIII.
The seventh Dividing Principle;1 It is obstinacy for a man not to be convinced by the judgement of many, more learned and godly then himself.
The seventh Dividing Principle;1 It is obstinacy for a man not to be convinced by the judgement of many, more learned and godly then himselfe.
- 1The seventh dividing principle.
The making this to be the rule to judg obstinacy by, hath in all ages caused great divisions by exasperating the spirits of ••en one against another. In times of Popery what rage ⟨p. 88⟩did it raise against men who were most conscientious? the generality of men thought they did God good service, in persecuting those who would not yield to the judgment of others, who had the repute of learning and piety; and those who were conscientious, could not yield to their determinations, not seeing the truth of God in them, and this made the stir. While men appear obstinate, by the rule of Christ we are not to bear with them; and this Principle sets thousands of godly peaceable men in the seat of the obstinate, these cannot in conscience yield, and others cannot but in conscience oppose them; what reconciliation then can there be hoped? either men must captivate their consciences, cause them in a sordid way to bow down to slavery, or else there must needs be continual division and opposition where this prevails.