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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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If this were so,1 it were a sad dividing practice indeed; wicked men cannot endure to be thus judged of, to be cast out as unworthy of Church-fellowship, much less can the Saints be able to bear it, it must needs go nearer to their hearts. Aben Ezra says, the Ammonites and Moabites burnt the books of the Law, because of that place, Deut. 23. 3. An Ammonite or ⟨p. 166⟩Moabite shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord, even to their tenth Generation. If an Ammonite or Moabite cannot bear the being shut out of the Congregation of the Lord,2 how can the Saints bear it? But God knows, and our Brethren may know, I hope they shall know, that the thing is not so: O no, they look upon you as the precious Saints of God, their dear Brethren in Jesus Christ, they bless God for the graces they see in you, and rejoice in the hope of living eternally in Heaven with you.
If this were so,1 it were a sad dividing practice indeed; wicked men cannot endure to be thus judged of, to be cast out as unworthy of Church-fellowship, much lesse can the Saints bee able to beare it, it must needes go neerer to their hearts. Aben Ezra sayes, the Ammonites and Moabites burnt the bookes of the Law, because of that place, Deut. 23. 3. An Ammonite or ⟨p. 166⟩Moabite shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord, even to their tenth Generation. If an Ammonite or Moabite cannot beare the being shut out of the Congregation of the Lord,2 how can the Saints beare it? But God knows, and our Brethren may know, I hope they shall know, that the thing is not so: O no, they looke upon you as the precious Saints of God, their deare Brethren in Jesus Christ, they blesse God for the graces they see in you, and rejoice in the hope of living eternally in Heaven with you.