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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.
First, one Body. The meanest member yet it is in the body. Is it comely for the body of Christ to be rent and torn? any reference to Christ might persuade unity, but union with Christ as the members with the body, what heart can stand against the strength of this? What can cause one member to tear and rend another, but madness?
First, one Body. The meanest member yet it is in the body. Is it comely for the body of Christ to be rent and torn? any reference to Christ might perswade unity, but union with Christ as the members with the body, what heart can stand against the strength of this? What can cause one member to tear and rend another, but madness?
2. One Spirit, 1 Cor. 12. 11. that one and the self same spirit: he does not only say, The same spirit; but, The self same spirit: and as if that not enough, he adds One to the self same; and that yet not enough, he says, That one, all this is in the Greek, [Greek or Hebrew]. The repeating the Article hath a great ⟨p. 269⟩elegance in it. And is not this one Spirit the Spirit of love and meekness? What does a froward contentious spirit do in thee, who profest thy self to be a Christian? What, says Cyprian, does the fierceness of Wolves,1 the madness of Dogs, the deadly poison of Serpents, the bloody rage of Beasts, in a Christians breast?
2. One Spirit, 1 Cor. 12. 11. that one and the self same spirit: he does not only say, The same spirit; but, The self same spirit: and as if that not enough, he addes One to the self same; and that yet not enough, he sayes, That one, all this is in the Greek, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. The repeating the Article hath a great