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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.
When I say,1 we must have Scripture, and in it institutions for those things which are spiritual, and properly Church-affairs, I mean whatsoever is made use of for the drawing my soul nearer to God, or God nearer to me; or for the tendering up my Homage to God, beyond what it hath in the nature of the thing, put into it by God; for that I must have an institution, I must not frame any such thing to my self; If I make use of any thing of mine own, for such an end that I may worship God by, or that God might convey some spiritual efficacy to me in the use of it, because it is a thing that I think as fit for such an end, as other Ordinances I find in the Word, and yet have not an institution for it; in this I sin against Christ the Lord, who alone hath power to set apart the use of what he pleaseth, for the tendering up homage to God, or the conveying of any spiritual efficacy from God into the hearts of his servants.
When I say,1 we must have Scripture, and in it institutions for those things which are spirituall, and properly Church-affairs, I mean whatsoever is made use of for the drawing my soule neerer to God, or God neerer to me; or for the tendring up my Homage to God, beyond what it hath in the nature of the thing, put into it by God; for that I must have an institution, I must not frame any such thing to my self; If I make use of any thing of mine own, for such an end that I may worship God by, or that God might convey some spirituall efficacy to me in the use of it, because it is a thing that I thinke as fit for such an end, as other Ordinances I find in the Word, and yet have not an institution for it; in this I sinne against Christ the Lord, who alone hath power to set apart the use of what he pleaseth, for the tendring up homage to God, or the conveighing of any spirituall efficacy from God into the hearts of his servants.
- 1What are those things we must have institutions for.