A30587:691
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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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.
If Governors shall enjoin any thing upon the Church, or any member, that is sin, or if they shall mingle evil in the public worship, so that there can be no joining with their worship, but there must be likewise a joining with sin, in this case if any withdraw from them,1 they are the Schismatics, not those who withdraw, they are fugati, not fugitivi. The blame of Schism, says learned Vo•tius, must not be upon those who forsake such as have forsaken Christ and the ancient faith; but upon those who have thus forsaken Christ and his truth.
If Governours shall enjoyne any thing upon the Church, or any member, that is sinne, or if they shall mingle evill in the publick worship, so that there can be no joyning with their worship, but there must be likewise a joyning with sinne, in this case if any withdraw from them,1 they are the Schismaticks, not those who withdraw, they are fugati, not fugitivi. The blame of Schisme, sayes learned Vo•tius, must not be upon those who forsake such as have forsaken Christ and the ancient faith; but upon those who have thus forsaken Christ and his truth.
- 1Culpam schismatis non debere conferri in eos qui desertores deserunt, sed in ipsos desertores qui Christum & antiquam fidem deserum erant, Voet. desper. causa papatus, lib. 3. sect. 3.
When the second Council of Nice set up Image-worship, many thousands could not yield to it, but were forced to withdraw, who was the Schismatical party there, but the Synod and those who joined with it?
When the second Councell of Nice set up Image-worship, many thousands could not yeeld to it, but were forced to withdraw, who was the Schismaticall party there, but the Synod and those who joyned with it?