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Irenicum, to the Lovers of Truth and Peace

by Jeremiah Burroughs

Publication

Publisher
Soli Deo Gloria
Print status
Out of stock

The Physical Book

Binding
Paperback
Total pages
448 pages
ISBN-13
9798886861228

Reference

Notes
First published London, 1653. A plea against needless division in the church, diagnosing ten "dividing principles," twelve "dividing distempers," and a dozen "dividing practices" before turning to the cure. Regarded by biographer Phillip L. Simpson as among the most helpful Puritan treatises on Christian unity.
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Contents

  • The Text Opened, and Suitableness of It to Our Times Shown
  • The Evil of Dividing Between God and Anything Else
  • Heart Divisions One from Another
  • Ten Dividing Principles
    • I. There Can Be No Agreement Without Uniformity
    • II. All Religions Are to Be Tolerated
    • III. Nothing Which Is Conceived Evil Is to Be Suffered
    • IV. Division Is the Best Way to Maintain Dominion
    • V. Every Man Is Bound to Profess and Practice Always What He Apprehends to Be Truth
    • VI. What Is in Itself Best Must Be Chosen and Done, Not Weighing Circumstances
    • VII. It Is Obstinacy for a Man Not to Be Convinced by the Judgment of Many More Learned and Godly Than Himself
    • VIII. If Others Are Against What We Conceive to Be Truth, We May Judge Them to Go Against Their Own Light
    • IX. Rules of Prudence Sufficient to Guide Us in Civil Affairs May as Well Suffice in Spiritual Affairs
    • X. Every Difference in Religion Is a Differing Religion
  • Dividing Distempers: What They Are and How They Cause Divisions
    • I. Pride of Heart
    • II. Self-Love
    • III. Envy
    • IV. Passion
    • V. Rigidness
    • VI. Rashness
    • VII. Wilfulness
    • VIII. Unconstancy
    • IX. A Spirit of Jealousy
    • X. A Spirit of Contention
    • XI. Covetousness
    • XII. Falseness
  • Dividing Practices
    • I. The Practice of the Tongue
    • II. Needless Disputes
    • III. Men Not Keeping Within the Bounds That God Has Set for Them
    • IV. Disorderly Gathering of Churches
    • V. Seeking to Demean the Credits of Those Men Whom the Lord Uses as Instruments
    • VI. Giving Characterizing Names to Men That Are Names of Division
    • VII–XII. Further Dividing Practices
  • The Evil of Divisions: They Hinder Much Good
  • The Sinfulness of Our Divisions
  • The Woeful Miseries of Our Divisions
  • Cautions About Our Divisions
  • The Cure of Our Divisions
    • Joining Principles
    • Joining Considerations
    • Joining Graces
    • Joining Practices
  • Exhortation to Peaceable and Brotherly Union, Showing the Excellency of It