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The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…
The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child of God and the misery of having ones portion in this world, unfolding the state of true happiness with the marks, means, and members thereof / by Jer. Burroughs.The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child of God and the misery of having ones portion in this world, unfolding the state of true happiness with the marks, means, and members thereof / by Ier. Burroughs.
London: printed for Francis Eglesfield, 1657
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'll say, if men be in an error, why should they not be forced, shall every man be left to his opinion, to do what he will?
But you'l say, if men be in an errour, why should they not be forc'd, shall every man be left to his opinion, to do what he will?
No, I plead not for that neither; therefore I except all opinions. 1. against the foundation of religion. 2. and that are against the foundation of civill government; take those 2. aside, and then for other opinions that are of a lower, inferior nature, (I say) there you take too much upon you, whosoever you are, if you should think to force men to be of the same opinion as you are, and there is no such way to make a disturbance in Churches, & Commonwealths, then to force men to be of the same opinion in things, that are of an inferior nature.
No, I plead not for that neither; therefore I except all opinions. 1. against the foundation of religion. 2. and that are against the foundation of civill government; take those 2. aside, and then for other opinions that are of a lower, inferiour nature, (I say) there you take too much upon you, whosoever you are, if you should think to force men to be of the same opinion as you are, and there is no such way to make a disturbance in Churches, & Commonwealths, then to force men to be of the same opinion in things, that are of an inferiour nature.
I, but you'll still say, if it be an error, they must not be left to live in ⟨p. 62⟩it, if it be an error; nay stay there, a man may be in an error; and yet you have nothing to do to offer violence unto him, to bring him out of his error; you may seek to convince him as much as you can: but to offer violence, you undertake more, then God hath given you commission to do, what ever you are; & I give this Scripture for it, with is clear in the Romans: One believeth that he may eat all things,