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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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But further; there are other natural civill circumstances, which need not at all be determined; though there be a liberty and variety in them, yet order and edification is not hereby hindered. As for instance, In hearing the word, one stands, as Constantine was wont constantly to do; another sits; one is uncovered, another is covered; one hath one kind of garment, another, another; yet no rules of modesty or gravity are broken. Now if any power should violently urge uniformity in such like circumstances, and not leave them as Christ hath done, here they make the necessity of uniformity a dividing principle, upon these four grounds.
But further; there are other naturall civill circumstances, which need not at all be determined; though there be a liberty and variety in them, yet order and edification is not hereby hindered. As for instance, In hearing the word, one stands, as Constantine was wont constantly to do; another sits; one is uncovered, another is covered; one hath one kind of garment, another, another; yet no rules of modesty or gravity are broken. Now if any power should violently urge uniformity in such like circumstances, and not leave them as Christ hath done, here they make the necessity of uniformity a dividing principle, upon these four grounds.
1. This is a straitening mens natural liberties, without satisfying their reason.
1. This is a straitning mens naturall liberties, without satisfying their reason.
2. This hath been the in-let to almost all superstitions in the Church; First the plea hath been for decency and order, then there hath been stamped a humane institution to raise things higher.