{"product_id":"irenicum-to-the-lovers-of-truth-and-peace","title":"Irenicum, to the Lovers of Truth and Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003ePuritan Jeremiah Burroughs bares his pastoral heart in this call for God’s people to stop dividing needlessly. With doctrinal precision and care, Burroughs illuminates the sources of and solutions to common divisions within the Church. In a day rife with polarization and disunity, seek healing wisdom in this timeless work.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndorsement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIrenicum\u003c\/em\u003e is the best expression of Burroughs’s peace-loving heart, and it remains an enduring guide for Christians who want to promote peace among the godly. No doubt it is one of the most helpful treatises on Christian unity ever written by the Puritans or any other minister in the church.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Phillip L. Simpson, author of \u003cem\u003eA Life of Gospel Peace: A Biography of Jeremiah Burroughs\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo the Reader\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe text opened, and suitableness of it to our times shown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe evil of dividing between God and anything else\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeart divisions on from another\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first dividing principle: There can be no agreement without uniformity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe second dividing principle: All religions are to be tolerated\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe question discussed, what should be done to a man who pleads his conscience\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey who are for a congregational way do not hold absolute liberty for all religions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe third dividing principle: Nothing which is conceived evil is to be suffered\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRules to know in what things we are to bear with our brethren\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fourth dividing principle: Division is the best way to maintain dominion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fifth dividing principle: Every man is bound to profess and practice always what he apprehends to be truth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe sixth dividing principle: What is in itself best must be chosen and done, not weighing circumstances or references\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe seventh dividing principle: It is obstinacy for a man not to be convinced by the judgment of many who are more learned and godly than himself\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eighth dividing principle: If others are against what we conceive to be truth, we may judge them to go against their own light; the ninth dividing principle: Rules of prudence are sufficient to guide us in natural and civil affairs, and may as well suffice us in spiritual and church affairs; The tenth dividing principle (or, rather, vain conceit): Every difference in religion is a differing religion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDividing Distempers: what they are and how they cause divisions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe pride of men’s hearts is the great dividing distemper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelf-love, the second dividing distemper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe third dividing distemper is envy; the fourth dividing distemper is passion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fifth dividing distemper is rigidness; the sixth, rashness; the seventh, wilfullness; the eighth, unconstancy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe ninth dividing distemper is a spirit of jealousy; the tenth, a spirit of contention; the eleventh, covetousness; the twelfth, falseness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDividing practices: the first, the practice of the tongue; the second, needless disputes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe third dividing practice: men not keeping within the bounds that God has set for them\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fourth dividing practice: disorderly gathering of churches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fifth dividing practice: seeking to demean the credits of those men whom the Lord uses as instruments of God\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe sixth dividing practice: giving characterizing names to men that are names of division\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth dividing practices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe evil of divisions: they hinder much good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe sinfulness of our divisions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe woeful miseries of our divisions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCautions about our divisions, that we may not make an ill use of them, but try if it be possible to get good out of them\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe cure of our divisions; joining principles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoining considerations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoining graces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoining practices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExhortation to peaceable and brotherly union, showing the excellency of it\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Soli Deo Gloria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53009676042551,"sku":"bhe1789811192136","price":11.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/8910\/4695\/files\/irenicum-to-the-lovers-of-truth-and-peace_1.jpg?v=1789811197","url":"https:\/\/effortlesschicclad.shop\/products\/irenicum-to-the-lovers-of-truth-and-peace","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}