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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.
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, Exod. 8. 25, 26. Pharaoh bade Moses sacrifice in the land: But Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians: Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? Though they had leave of the King, yet the people would not endure it.
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 restrayning any, but to aske them why they doe so, and to perswade them to doe otherwise? There hath ever been as great a contestation amongst people about Religion, as about any thing, Exod. 8. 25, 26. Pharaoh bade Moses sacrifice in the land: But Moses said, It is not meete so to doe; for we shall sacrifice the abominations of the Aegyptians: Loc, shall wee sacrifice the abomination of the Aegyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? Though they had leave of the King, yet the people would not endure it.