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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.
First, no man either in State or Church, hath any authority given him by God, to command any thing merely because he will; especially, when the things concern the worship of God. Our Brethren of Scotland in their dispute against English Popish Ceremonies, part 3. chap. 8. pag. 127. have this passage, Princes have enjoined things pertaining to the worship of God, but those things were the very same which Gods written Word had expressly commanded; when Princes went beyond these limits and bounds, they took upon them to judge and command more then God hath put within the compass of their power: And pag. 136. of the same Book they say, The Apostle, 1 Cor. 7. 23. forbiddeth us to be the servants of men, that is, to do things for which we have no other warrant beside the pleasure and will of men. This was the Doctrine in Tertullians time, 1You exercise, says he, an unjust dominion over others, if you deny a thing may be done, because you will, not because it ought not to be done.
First, no man either in State or Church, hath any authority given him by God, to command any thing meerely because hee will; especially, when the things concerne the worship of God. Our Brethren of Scotland in their dispute against English Popish Ceremonies, part 3. chap. 8. pag. 127. have this passage, Princes have enjoyned things pertaining to the worship of God, but those things were the very same which Gods written Word had expresly commanded; when Princes went beyond these limits and bounds, they tooke upon them to judge and command more then God hath put within the compasse of their power: And pag. 136. of the same Booke they say, The Apostle, 1 Cor. 7. 23. forbiddeth us to be the servants of men, that is, to doe things for which wee have no other warrant beside the pleasure and will of men. This was the Doctrine in Tertullians time, 1You exercise, sayes he, an unjust dominion over others, if you deny a thing may bee done, because you will, not because it ought not to bee done.
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