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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.
Secondly, if either they, or any Governors of the State, shall instead of being helpful to the government of the Church, take it all from it into their own hands, in this they go beyond those bounds Christ would have them; it is by the Civill power that the Governors of the Church have the peaceable exercise of what power Christ hath given them, but they have not their power from them. Civill authority cannot put any spiritual power into a man, or company of men, which they had not before; it can only protect, encourage, and further the exercise of that power that CHRIST hath given. ⟨p. 154⟩They are inconsiderate men, 1says Calvin, who make Magistrates too spiritual; This evil, says he, prevails in Germany, and in the Countries about us; we find what fruit grows from this root, namely that those who are in power, think themselves so spiritual, that there is no other ecclesiastical government; this sacrilege comes in violently amongst us, because they cannot measure their office within its due bounds.
Secondly, if either they, or any Governours of the State, shall instead of being helpfull to the government of the Church, take it all from it into their owne hands, in this they goe beyond those bounds Christ would have them; it is by the Civill power that the Governours of the Church have the peaceable exercise of what power Christ hath given them, but they have not their power from them. Civill authority cannot put any spirituall power into a man, or company of men, which they had not before; it can onely protect, encourage, and further the exercise of that power that CHRIST hath given. ⟨p. 154⟩They are inconsiderate men, 1sayes Calvin, who make Magistrates too spirituall; This evill, sayes he, prevailes in Germanie, and in the Countries about us; we finde what fruit growes from this root, namely that those who are in power, thinke themselves so spirituall, that there is no other ecclesiasticall government; this sacriledge comes in violently amongst us, because they cannot measure their office within its due bounds.
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