A30587:1047
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.
The eleventh.
Consider what account we can give to Jesus Christ of all our Divisions.
When Christ shall come, will you stand before him with scratched faces, with black and blew eyes? 1 Thes. 3. 12, 13. The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another, and towards all men: To what end? To the end, saith the Apostle, he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints. It will be a sad thing to be found in our divisions, at the coming of Jesus Christ, Mat. 24. 50. the coming of Christ is mentioned as a terror to those who shall but begin to smite their fellow-servants. We may wrangle & stand out one against another in our contentions now; but it will not be so easy to answer Jesus ⟨p. 280⟩Christ, as it is to answer one to another. In the Name of Jesus Christ I now speak unto you, yea as from him charge you, let no reason move you to contend with, dissent or separate from your brethren, but that which you are persuaded in your conscience, and that after due and serious examination will hold out before, will be approved of, Jesus Christ at his coming.