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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.
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, 1another eateth herbs, let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not, and let not him which eateth not, judge him that eateth; for who art thou that judgest another? who art thou that judgest? certainly one of these was a sin at that time, but yet, though one were a sin, yet they that were in the right must not by violence force those, that were in the wrong, to their opinion; but they must leave them to God; (I say,) in matters of such consequence as these, it is a point of Antichristian tyranny, and notorious pride in men, that have taken so much upon them, as to force all to be ⟨p. 63⟩of the same opinion; this is not the way certainly for true peace; but thus much for the 2. Corollary; The 3. follows.
I, but you'l still say, if it be an errour, they must not be left to live in ⟨p. 62⟩it, if it be an errour; nay stay there, a man may be in an errour; and yet you have nothing to do to offer violence unto him, to bring him out of his errour; 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, 1another eateth hearbs, let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not, and let not him which eateth not, judge him that eateth; for who art thou that judgest another? who art thou that judgest? certainly one of these was a sin at that time, but yet, though one were a sin, yet they that were in the right must not by violence force those, that were in the vvrong, to their opinion; but they must leave them to God; (I say,) in matters of such consequence as these, it is a point of Antichristian tyranny, and notorious pride in men, that have taken so much upon them, as to force all to be