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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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2ly. You must even then when you cannot subject to their judgments, preserve due reverence in your heart, and show due respects to men of learning and grace according to their worth. We have a notable relation of that holy man. Mr. Greenham, in a Letter of his to the Bishop of Ely, in whose Diocese he lived; the Bishop seeking to bring him to conformity, objected thus unto him, Why will not you yield? Luther §2approved of these things, are you wiser then he? His sober and gracious answer was, I reverence more the revealed will of God in teaching that worthy instrument of God, Mr. Luther so many necessary ⟨p. 90⟩things to salvation, then I search into his secret will, why he kept back from his knowledge other things of less importance.
2ly. You must even then when you cannot subject to their judgments, preserve due reverence in your heart, and shew due respects to men of learning and grace according to their worth. We have a notable relation of that holy man. Mr. Greenham, in a Letter of his to the Bishop of Ely, in whose Diocesse he lived; the Bishop seeking to bring him to conformity, objected thus unto him, Why will not you yeeld? Luther §2approved of these things, are you wiser then he? His sober and gracious answer was, I reverence more the revealed will of God in teaching that worthy instrument of God, Mr. Luther so many necessary ⟨p. 90⟩things to salvation, then I search into his secret will, why hee kept backe from his knowledge other things of lesse importance.
3ly. If those things wherein we differ from the judgments of learned and godly men, be not matters of duty, they only may bring us to some suffering, we should silently yield for peace sake, and out of respect to them not oppose.