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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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This is cried out of as the greatest dividing practice of all: You may speak of this or that to be dividing amongst us, say some, but above all things, this Gathering of Churches is the great divider amongst us.
THis is cryed out of as the greatest dividing practice of all: You may speak of this or that to be dividing amongst us, say some, but above all things, this Gathering of Churches is the great divider amongst us.
To this I shall speak in these six things.
First, it is not absolutely unlawful for a Church to be gathered out of a Church. Voetius that learned Professor of Utrecht, 1answering Jansenius, pleading against us for separating from the Romish Church, which was the most ancient and famous Church: No, says he, it is not absolutely evil to separate from such a Church, for then the Christians gathering themselves out of the Jewish Church were Schismatics, which is false.
First, it is not absolutely unlawfull for a Church to be gathered out of a Church. Voetius that learned Professor of Ʋiretcht, 1answering Jansenius, pleading against us for seperating from the Romish Church, which was the most ancient and famous Church: No, sayes he, it is not absolutely evill to separate from such a Church, for then the Christians gathering themselves out of the Jewish Church were Schismaticks, which is false.
- 1Alioquin Christiani collecti ex Judaeis & divulsi ab eorum Ecclesia antiquissima & celeberrima essent schismatici, Voet. Despera a causa papatus, l. 3. sect. 8.