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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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To which the Ambassadors of Austria reply: What discommodity were herein, how heavy and sorrowful news this would be to the people, who seeth not? When they shall hear that they which have been ever most ready to spend their blood and life for the preservation and dignity of the House of Austria, must now forsake their most sweet native Country, so many years inhabited and enriched by their fore-fathers? Therefore we admit not that Answer in this behalf: but as we have done heretofore, for the honour of God we beseech you, that you would suffer us to have no let in this matter, &c.
To which the Embassadors of Austria reply: What discommoditie were herein, how heavie and sorrowfull newes this would be to the people, who seeth not? When they shall heare that they which have been ever most ready to spend their bloud and life for the preservation and dignity of the House of Austria, must now forsake their most sweet native Countrey, so many yeers inhabited and enriched by their fore-fathers? Therefore we admit not that Answer in this behalfe: but as we have done heretofore, for the honour of God we beseech you, that you would suffer us to have no let in this matter, &c.
But you will say, What does all this tend to, but to plead for an absolute Toleration, which you seemed before to be against?
I answer, In quoting these Authors I own not such a judgment that possibly you may think to be in some of them for an absolute Toleration. How a Toleration should be limited and granted, I have spoke to before: but I produce the Authors to this end, that the rigidness of the judgments of some amongst us that think all differences in religion that cannot be quelled by argument, must be quelled b• violence, may be mollified. I am sure if any of these men go too far one way, those which I am now reproving go as wide another. Fierce violence in matters of Religion is dangerous; as the Chirurgeons rigorous handling his patients arm, breaks that bone quite, which before was but out of joint.