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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.
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, 1says, As in natural things that which is by accident does not constitute the species, so in moral, not that which is beside the intention for that is accidental: therefore, says he, the sin of Schism is in that it intends to separate from that unity which charity makes, and therefore Schismatics are properly those who of their own accord and intention do separate themselves from the unity of the Church.
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 Schismatick. Aquinas shewing that wherein the vitiousnesse of Schisme lyes, 1sayes, As in naturall things that which is by accident does not constitute the species, so in morall, not that which is beside the intention for that is accidentall: therefore, sayes he, the sin of Schisme is in that it intends to separate from that unity which charity makes, and therefore Schismaticks are properly those who of their own accord and intention doe separate themselves from the unity of the Church.
- 1Sicut in rebus naturalibus id quod est per accidens non constituit speciem; ita in rebus moralibus, id quod est intentum. Quod sequitur praeter intentionem, est quasi per accidens, & ideo peccatum schismatic proprie est speciale peccatum, ex eo quod intendit se ab unitate separare quam charitas facit, & ideo proprie Schismatici dicuntur qui propria sponte & intentione se ab unitate Ecclesiae separant. Aquinas 2da. 2dae. Quest. 39. Art. 1. C.