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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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5ly. In all things wherein you can agree, you should be the more careful to manifest all possible observance and respect to them, in blessing God for any help he grants to you by them, either in making known his truth to you, or at least in further confirming you in it by them.
5ly. In all things wherein you can agree, you should be the more carefull to manifest all possible observance and respect to them, in blessing God for any help he grants to you by them, either in making known his truth to you, or at least in further confirming you in it by them.
6ly. And in what still your consciences will not suffer you to agree with them, you are to take it as your affliction, and to account that way you are in to want a great lustre, and most desirable encouragement, in that so many learned and godly mens judgments and practices are against it.
6ly. And in what still your consciences will not suffer you to agree with them, you are to take it as your affliction, and to account that way you are in to want a great lustre, and most desireable encouragement, in that so many learned and godly mens judgments and practices are against it.
We are to raise our respects to men of learning and godliness thus high; but if we should go so high, as to give up our judgment and consciences to them, we should in honouring them, dishonour Christ, yea they would account themselves to be dishonoured.1 Such as are truly godly and wise, do rather account it their honour to carry a loving respect to those who differ from them, then desire that men should, blindfold, before they see their grounds, follow them. Prelatical spirits indeed account it their honour to force men to be of their mind; it is their glory that they can say to the consciences of men, Bow down before us. A gracious spirit abhors the thought of such a tyranny. This to high raising respects due to learned, holy men, hath been very hurtful in the Church, prejudicial to the souls of men, but especially to the honour of Christ. I will give you an instance. Erasmus was no novice, yet how dangerously he was taken with this, will appear by a strange expression of his, in an Epistle he wrote to one Bilibaldus: How far the authority of the Church prevails with others,