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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.
Tanta ne vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri? Sed motas praesta• componere lites.
Whosoever shall read that Book of Bancroft, entitled, Dangerous Positions, published and practised by those who pretend Reformation for the Presbyterial Government, shall find the whole subject of the book to be the blasting the names of the most eminent godly Ministers that lived in those times, rendering them to the State, as men not fit to be suffered in any Christian Common-wealth. The State at that time being wholly for Prelacy, and discountenancing that way of government these men sought for, their adversaries thought they might be bold to take what liberty they pleased, to calumniate, traduce, and to render them as vile as possible they might, there was no such way to keep them down as this; in this, they being like those in the Primitive times, who put the Christians into Bears and Tigers skins, and then cast them to the Dogs to be devoured.
Whosoever shall reade that Booke of Bancroft, entituled, Dangerous Positions, published and practised by those who pretend Reformation for the Presbyteriall Government, shall find the whole subject of the booke to be the blasting the names of the most eminent godly Ministers that lived in those times, rendring them to the State, as men not fit to be suffered in any Christian Common-wealth. The State at that time being wholly for Prelacie, and discountenancing that way of government these men sought for, their adversaries thought they might be bold to take what liberty they pleased, to calumniate, traduce, and to render them as vile as possible they might, there was no such way to keepe them downe as this; in this, they being like those in the Primitive times, who put the Christians into Beares and Tygers skins, and then cast them to the Dogges to be devoured.
Let the servants of God but appear as they are, they will gain reverential respect even from the multitude; but when these ugly things are put upon them, they are prepared to be the objects of their fury.