Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

The answer to that is, if they be acted by that principle, and therein mistake, this is their personal sin, not the sin of those ⟨p. 184⟩who join with them in a good thing, which they do upon an ill ground. When I join with a man in an action, I am to look to the action, and to the principle that I go upon, but let him with whom I join look to the principle that he goes upon.

The answer to that is, if they be acted by that principle, and therein mistake, this is their personall sinne, not the sin of those ⟨p. 184⟩who joyne with them in a good thing, which they doe upon an ill ground. When I joyne with a man in an action, I am to look to the action, and to the principle that I goe upon, but let him with whom I joyne look to the principle that he goes upon.

Your hearing a man doth no way justify his call to the office of the Ministry.

Your hearing a man doth no way justifie his call to the office of the Ministery.

If a man doth a thing that he may do by virtue of two relations or either of them, it may be he thinks he stands in one of those relations which indeed he doth not, yet he doth the action by virtue of it in his own thoughts, in this he sins; but there is another relation wherein he stands, that is enough to warrant the action that he doth to be lawful. Now though he doth not intend the acting by this relation, the action may be sin to him, but not at all sin to those who join with him in it. If he will go upon a false ground, when he may go upon a true, let him look to it. I will join with him in that action as warranted for him to do by virtue of his second relation, which it may be he will not own himself.