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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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Cyprian in his sixth Epistle professeth his resolution to do nothing without the counsel of the Elders,1 and consent of the people. Our Brethren of Scotland in their opposition to the Prelates, give very much to the people in the matter of Excommunication: It pertaineth say they to the whole Church collectively taken to deny her Christian communion to such wicked persons as add contumacy to their disobedience,2 therefore it pertaineth to the whole Church to excommunicate them.3 Again, It pertaineth to the whole Church to admit one into her communion, therefore to the whole Church to cast one out of her communion. And a page or two after, The Apostle writing to the whole Church of Corinth will have them being gathered together, to deliver that incestuous person to Satan, therefore every particular Church or Congregation hath power to excommunicate. There they give many arguments to prove, that the Apostle would not excommunicate by his own authority alone, but by the authority of the Church, and that collectively taken, (so they say) not the Ministers or Elders of the Church only.
Cyprian in his sixt Epistle professeth his resolution to doe nothing without the counsell of the Elders,1 and consent of the people. Our Brethren of Scotland in their opposition to the Prelates, give very much to the people in the matter of Excommunication: It pertaineth say they to the whole Church collectively taken to deny her Christian communion to such wicked persons as adde contumacie to their disobedience,2 therefore it pertaineth to the whole Church to excommunicate them.3 Againe, It pertaineth to the whole Church to admit one into her communion, therefore to the whole Church to cast one out of her communion. And a page or two after, The Apostle writing to the whole Church of Corinth will have them being gathered together, to deliver that incestuous person to Satan, therefore every particular Church or Congregation hath power to excommunicate. There they give many arguments to prove, that the Apostle would not excommunicate by his owne authority alone, but by the authority of the Church, and that collectively taken, (so they say) not the Ministers or Elders of the Church onely.