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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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It is a good speech I find Chillingworth hath, what the goodness of the man was I know not, but in that Treatise of his, The Religion of Protestants a safe way, Cap. 5. Part. 1. Sect. 61. answering that plea of his adversary against Protestants, that communion with a Church not erring in fundamentals, upon pretence of erring in other matters, must not be forsaken, he hath ⟨p. 176⟩this excellent saying: If I did not find in my self a love and desire of all profitable truth; if I did not put away idleness, and prejudice, and worldly affections, and so examine to the bottom all my opinions of divine matters, being prepared in mind to follow God, and God only which way soever he shall lead me; if I did not hope that I either do or endeavour to do these things, certainly I should have little hope of obtaining salvation.
It is a good speech I finde Chillingworth hath, what the goodnesse of the man was I know not, but in that Treatise of his, The Religion of Protestants a safe way, Cap. 5. Part. 1. Sect. 61. answering that plea of his adversary against Protestants, that communion with a Church not erring in fundamentals, upon pretence of erring in other matters, must not be forsaken, he hath ⟨p. 176⟩this excellent saying: If I did not finde in my selfe a love and desire of all profitable truth; if I did not put away idlenesse, and prejudice, and worldly affections, and so examine to the bottome all my opinions of divine matters, being prepared in minde to follow God, and God onely which way soever he shall lead me; if I did not hope that I either doe or endeavour to doe these things, certainely I should have little hope of obtaining salvation.
When I consider of these causes of departing from a particular Church, that speech of Tertullian concerning a Martyr comes into my minde, Non poena sed causa facit Martyrem, Not the punishment but the cause makes a Martyr. So, Non dec•ssio sed causa facit Schismaticum, Not the departing, but the cause makes a Schismatic. Aquinas showing that wherein the viciousness of Schism lies,