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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
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The eighth.
Consider how unworthy we were when Jesus Christ received us into union with himself.
Consider how unworthy we were when Jesus Christ received us into union with himselfe.
What uncomely, what loathsome creatures we were! yet Christ took us into his bosom, into his heart, and resolved that never any thing should separate us from him again. But that those embracements of his should be everlasting, and yet shall every trifle take us off from one another's hearts? shall every jealous suspicious conceit, every little difference, be enough to separate us and that almost irreconcilably? Have we the spirit of Christ in us? is the same mind in us that was in Christ Jesus?
WHat uncomely, what loathsome creatures we were! yet Christ took us into his bosome, into his heart, and resolved that never any thing should seperate us from him againe. But that those embracements of his should be everlasting, and yet shall every trifle take us off from one anothers hearts? shall every jealous spusitious conceit, every little difference, be enough to seperate us and that almost irreconcileably? Have we the spirit of Christ in us? is the same minde in us that was in Christ Jesus?