A30587:1039
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 ninth.
Consider that we are called to Peace.
GOD hath called us to peace, 1 Cor. 7. 15. That case upon which the Apostle mentions our calling to peace is as difficult a case to preserve peace in, as any can fall out in ones life. It was the case of man and wife unequally yoked, one is a Believer, the other an Infidel, yet being man and wife the Apostle determines that the Believer must be content to live with the unbeliever, as it becomes a wife or a husband; except he or she of themselves will depart, but they should give them no occasion of departing, but rather by their holy humble conversation seek to convert them: this no question was accounted a hard task, but it must be, says the Apostle, and upon this he grounds it, for God hath called us to peace. There is another case almost as difficult as this, where the patience and quietness of spirit is very much tried, and that is when a servant meets with a harsh, rugged, cruel master, that abuses him very injuriously; if any thing would put ones spirit into a rage, one would think this would do it. No, saith the Apostle, such must be the command you must have over your spirits, as you must patiently bear this: and he grounds it upon this, For hereunto were ye called, 1 Pet. 2. 21, 22. But though husbands and wives should live at peace, though they suffer one from another: though servants should put up wrongs from their masters, yet it follows not that the like patience should be required in us, when we are wronged by our equals, by those to whom we have no such band of relation to tie us. Yes, this argument of calling is strong in this case also: