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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.
This is an old continued practice of the Devil, he hath gained much by it, and therefore is loath to leave it: The Orthodox of old were called Cornelians, Cyrillians, by the followers of Novatus and Nestorius, 1in time of Reformation Lutherans, Zwinglians, Hussites, Calvinists, Huguenots. Tertullian says in his Apology for the Christians of his time, their crime that they are persecuted for, hath no name, that for which they are hated and persecuted is the crime of their name; such men are cried out of under such a name, but when things come to be examined, their name is all their crime.
THis is an old continued practice of the Devill, he hath gained much by it, and therefore is loath to leave it: The Orthodox of old were called Cornelians, Cyrillians, by the followers of Novatus and Nestorius, 1in time of Reformation Lutherans, Zuinglians, Hussites, Calvinists, Hugonots. Tertullian sayes in his Apology for the Christians of his time, their crime that they are persecuted for, hath no name, that for which they are hated and persecuted is the crime of their name; such men are cryed out of under such a name, but when things come to be examined, their name is all their crime.
- 1Nullum criminis nomen nisi nominis crimen. Tertul. Apo.
And among other that of Schismatic is not only a characterizing, but a stigmatizing name, whereby of old and lately many have had a brand of reproach upon them, which upon examination will be found to be as it is applied by many, nothing but a scaring word, taken up by such who understand little what Schism is; I shall therefore endeavour to open this briefly. The word Schism comes of the Greek [Greek or Hebrew], to rend, from thence [Greek or Hebrew], Scisura, a rent; It is amongst Divines a Technological term. Schism in the Church, is much like to what Sedition is in the State: When the Church grew up to the state and outward glory of an earthly Kingdom, much use was made of this term, as a brand upon those who would not subject to the yokes of them who loved preeminence in the Church.