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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.
There is a two-fold government that Christ hath:
1. One as he is God equal with the Father, together with the Father, ruling heaven and earth.
1. One as he is God equall with the Father, together with the Father, ruling heaven and earth.
2. Another, as he is God and man, Mediator, in a peculiar Kingdom of his that he hath by way of dispensation from the Father.
2. Another, as he is God and man, Mediator, in a peculiar Kingdome of his that he hath by way of dispensation from the Father.
Now the Magistrate is an Officer of God, both the Father and the Son, in the general government of the world. But he is not the Officer of Christ, in that Kingdom of his that he hath by way of dispensation from the Father, that Regnum Mediatorum, as Divines call it: No, though he be a Christian Magistrate, there are no Officers of that, but such as are by divine institution set down in the Word; his Christianity doth only add unto him further ability to execute the work of his Office in a better manner, it adds no new authority to him: An Infidel Magistrate converted to Christian Religion, is thereby better enabled to perform the duty of his place then before, but he had the same authority before; it was his sin, he did not use his Authority now as he is able to do; though he be a Christian who is a Magistrate, yet the power of his Magistracy belongs to another Kingdom, different from that the second person hath as he is Christ the Mediator.