Irenicum
Jeremiah Burroughs
Puritans
Chapters 37
- Front matter ≈ 4 min
- To the Reader ≈ 12 min
- 1. The Text opened, and suitability of it to our Times shown. ≈ 14 min
- 2. The Evil of Dividing Between God and Anything Else ≈ 12 min
- 3. Heart-Divisions: When We Separate from God, We Separate from His People ≈ 8 min
- 4. Heart-divisions one from another. ≈ 10 min
- 5. Dividing Principles ≈ 12 min
- 6. The Second Dividing Principle: All Religions Are to Be Tolerated ≈ 31 min
- 7. The second Position: Conscience is a tender thing and must not be meddled with. ≈ 36 min
- 8. They who are for a Congregational way do not hold absolute liberty for all Religions. ≈ 19 min
- 9. The third dividing Principle is, Thatnothing which is conceived to be evil, is to be suffered. ≈ 18 min
- 10. Rules to Know in What Things We Are to Bear with Our Brethren ≈ 53 min
- 11. The Fourth Dividing Principle: Division is the Best Way to Maintain Dominion ≈ 7 min
- 12. The Fifth Dividing Principle: That Every Man Is Bound to Profess and Practice Always What He Apprehends to Be Truth ≈ 30 min
- 13. The Sixth Dividing Principle: What is in itself bestmust be chosen and done, not weighing circumstances or reference ≈ 33 min
- 14. The Eighth Dividing Principle: If others oppose what we believe to be true, we may judge them as going against their ≈ 21 min
- 15. Dividing Distempers: The Lusts of Men's Hearts ≈ 44 min
- 16. Self-love, the Second Dividing Distemper. ≈ 20 min
- 17. The Third Dividing Distemper: Envy ≈ 35 min
- 18. The Fifth Dividing Distemper (Rigidity); the Sixth Rashness; the Seventh Wilfulness; the Eighth Unconstancy. ≈ 21 min
- 19. The ninth dividing distemper, A spirit of jealousy. The tenth, A spirit of contention. The eleventh, Covetousness. T ≈ 12 min
- 20. Dividing Practices. The first, The Practice of the Tongue. The second, Needless Disputes. ≈ 24 min
- 21. The Third Dividing Practice: Men Not Keeping Within the Bounds That God Has Set Them ≈ 26 min
- 22. The Fourth Dividing Practice: Gathering of Churches Disorderly ≈ 14 min
- 23. The fifth dividing practice: The aspersing and seeking to damage the reputations of those men whom the Lord uses as ≈ 13 min
- 24. The Sixth Dividing Practice: The Giving of Characterizing Names to Men, Names of Division ≈ 23 min
- 25. The seventh: Whatsoever personal evil there is in any onewho is in a differing way from others is cast upon all that ≈ 10 min
- 26. The Ninth Dividing Practice: Because Men Cannot Join in All Things with Others, They Will Join in Nothing ≈ 19 min
- 27. The Evil of Divisions: They Hinder Much Good ≈ 27 min
- 28. The Sinfulness of Our Divisions. ≈ 62 min
- 29. The woeful miseries that our divisions bring upon us. ≈ 27 min
- 30. Cautions about our Divisions, that we may not make an illuse of them, buttry if it bepossible to get good out of the ≈ 81 min
- 31. The Cure of our Divisions. ≈ 40 min
- 32. Joining Considerations. ≈ 40 min
- 33. Joining Graces ≈ 13 min
- 34. Joining Practices ≈ 32 min
- 35. Exhortation to peaceable and brotherly union, showing the excellence of it. ≈ 20 min
| Author | Jeremiah Burroughs |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | 1600s |
| Categories | Puritans · Christian Classics |
| Length | 37 chapters · ≈ 15 h 23 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
