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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.
God hath appointed Civill Governors to be his Ministers for our good. Rom. 13. Those things only which they can do in Gods Name as his Ministers, and are for the good of a State, are the object about which their power is to be exercised; they are not to require a thing because there is nothing against it, but because this thing is for God: And Church-governors are to require only such things as Christ requires, all the exercise of their power ought to be in the Name of Christ, hence not because they will, or because nothing can be said to the contrary.
God hath appointed Civill Governours to be his Ministers for our good. Rom. 13. Those things onely which they can doe in Gods Name as his Ministers, and are for the good of a State, are the object about which their power is to be exercised; they are not to require a thing because there is nothing against it, but because this thing is for God: And Church-governours are to require onely such things as Christ requires, all the exercise of their power ought to be in the Name of Christ, hence not because they will, or because nothing can be said to the contrary.
In all they require of us, they must be able to say as Paul, ⟨p. 159⟩1 Cor. 14. 38. giving rules about order and decency, If any man think himself to be a Prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the Commandments of the Lord.
In all they require of us, they must be able to say as Paul, ⟨p. 159⟩