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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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Peter Martyr in an Epistle to the Ministers, and such as ⟨p. 155⟩professed the faith in Polonia, exhorts them to endeavour the establishing of Discipline in the Church as soon as they could, while peoples hearts were heat with love to, and desires after the Gospel, he tells them it will be harder to bring it in afterward, when their hearts begin to grow more cold; and that they might not think Discipline a small thing, he says, that those Churches cannot be said to profess the Gospel truly nor solidly, which want it; he would have them acknowledge it not to be the least part of Christian Religion, but must know that the Gospel is neglected by such as shall put off from themselves such a singular excellent portion of it. But says he, this will be the Objection, Under the colour of Discipline, the Ministers of the Church will tyrannize, they will carry things according to their own minds.
Peter Martyr in an Epistle to the Ministers, and such as ⟨p. 155⟩professed the faith in Polonia, exhorts them to endeavour the establishing of Discipline in the Church as soon as they could, while peoples hearts were heat with love to, and desires after the Gospell, he tells them it will be harder to bring it in afterward, when their hearts begin to grow more cold; and that they might not thinke Discipline a small thing, he sayes, that those Churches cannot be said to professe the Gospell truly nor solidly, which want it; he would have them acknowledge it not to be the least part of Christian Religion, but must know that the Gospel is neglected by such as shall put off from themselves such a singular excellent portion of it. But sayes he, this will be the Objection, Under the colour of Discipline, the Ministers of the Church will tyrannize, they will carry things according to their owne mindes.
To this he answers, Tyranny in the Ministers needs not be feared, where the rule of the Gospel for censures is observed; for in casting out any who will not be reclaimed, the consent of the Church must be had; and if it be done by this authority, none can complain of the tyranny of a few.