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Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…
Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughs.Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them : with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them / by Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed for Robert Dawlman, 1653
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
God hath joined us together as we are men: we are not dogs, not wolves, let us not be so one to another. Act. 7. 26. Moses speaks thus to those who strove one with another: Sirs, ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another? The words in the Greek are, [Greek or Hebrew], men yet are brethren. There is a consideration in this, that ye are men: if there were no more, yet ye should not strive one with another, but much more considering ye are brethren. If we be men, let us be humane. What is the meaning of humanity, but courteousness, gentleness, pleasantness in our carriages one towards another? But still the consideration grows higher, as we are the same Country-men, of old acquaintance, in the same employment, of the same family and kindred, but above all, joined in such a blessed root, the fountain of all love and peace. Ephes. 4. 4. presents this consideration most fully to us. The reason the Apostle gives why we must keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, is, because there is one body, and one spirit, ye are called in one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. Here you have seven Ones together in two or three lines. It is very much that the spirit of God should join so close together seven Ones; surely it is to be a strong argument for us to unity.
GOd hath joyned us together as we are men: we are not dogs, not wolves, let us not be so one to another. Act. 7. 26. Moses speaks thus to those who strove one with another: Sirs, ye are brethren, why do yee wrong one another? The words in the Greek are, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, men yet are brethren. There is a consideration in this, that ye are men: if there were no more, yet ye should not strive one with another, but much more considering ye are brethren. If we be men, let us be humane. What is the meaning of humanity, but courteousness, gentleness, pleasantness in our carriages one towards another? But still the consideration growes higher, as we are the same Country-men, of old acquaintance, in the same imployment, of the same family and kindred, but above all, joyned in such a blessed root, the fountain of all love and peace. Ephes. 4. 4