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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.
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.
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 rigidnesse of the judgments of some amongst us that think all differences in religion thot 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 goe 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 joynt.
6. Some take advantage by them to give themselves to looseness §6