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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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Secondly, Conscience is a tender thing, and must have liberty; nothing must be done to men, who plead their consciences for what they do.
First, we shall show the Principle it self to be a dividing principle; Then the mistakes in those two assertions, that uphold this principle: As they strengthen the principle, so they strengthen division.
First, wee shall shew the Principle it selfe to be a dividing principle; Then the mistakes in those two assertions, that uphold this principle: As they strengthen the principle, so they strengthen division.
The principle is dividing; For,
First, It is an abhorring to nature. Is it not an abhorring §1thing to any mans heart in the world, that men should suffer that God to be blasphemed, whom they honour? and that nothing should be done for the restraining any, but to ask them why they do so, and to persuade them to do otherwise? There hath ever been as great a contestation amongst people about Religion, as about any thing,