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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.
2. That they have not joined to promote those ways of godliness, which they are convinced to be so.
2. That they have not joyned to promote those wayes of godlinesse, which they are convinced to be so.
3. That they have not joined to study what ways and means may be found out to ease the hearts and consciences one of another, to bear with one another, so far as Christ would have them be helpful to, and bear with one another. It is this that hath made such a stop in the work of Reformation. A peaceable, humble, and quiet discussing of things, furthers that Reformation that Christ would have. Do you think that Christ would be pleased with such a Reformation wherein the lesser part should give up their consciences and practices to the Judgments of the greater? such a kind of slubbering over matters might soon be, but Christ must have all the matters of his ⟨p. 208⟩worship and doctrine consented to, and practiced from a principle of faith. Let us join with all our might in all we know, and with peaceable, quiet, humble spirits seek to know more, and in the mean time carry our selves humbly and peaceably towards those we differ from, and Christ will not charge us at the Great Day for retarding his Cause, the great work of Reformation in hand.
3. That they have not joyned to study what wayes and means may be found out to ease the hearts and consciences one of another, to beare with one another, so far as Christ would have them be helpfull to, and beare with one another. It is this that hath made such a stop in the work of Reformation. A peaceable, humble, and quiet discussing of things, furthers that Reformation that Christ would have. Doe you thinke that Christ would be pleased with such a Reformation wherein the lesser part should give up their consciences and practices to the Judgments of the greater? such a kind of slubbering over matters might soon be, but Christ must have all the matters of his ⟨p. 208⟩