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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
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.
If you shall say, True, our case would be sad, but we must venture it, there is no help, better an inconvenience then a mischief.
If you shall say, True, our case would be sadde, but we must venture it, there is no helpe, better an inconvenience then a mischiefe.
But here will be not an inconvenience only but a mischief?1 ⟨p. 94⟩In civil things this indeed must be ventured, for there we are not bound to understand the reason and ground of all things; but if nothing appear to be contrary to the rules of justice and piety, we are to submit; but in the matters of Religion it is otherwise, we must understand the ground of all from the word; therefore those who shall lay down such a position, that we may deal with these men as obstinate, by the Ordinance of Christ, who after two or three admonitions shall not be of the same judgment, and do the same things that learned and godly men determine, do bring the Church into greater bondage then they are aware of.
But here will be not an inconvenience only but a mischief?1 ⟨p. 94⟩In civil things this indeed must be ventured, for there we are not bound to understand the reason and ground of all things; but if nothing appeare to be contrary to the rules of justice and piety, we are to submit; but in the matters of Religion it is otherwise, we must understand the ground of all from the word; therefore those who shall lay downe such a position, that we may deal with these men as obstinate, by the Ordinance of Christ, who after two or three admonitions shal not be of the same judgment, and do the same things that learned and godly men determine, do bring the Church into greater bondage then they are aware of.