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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.
1. Wisdom.
1. Wisdome.
The deepest Seas are the most calm, so men of the deepest judgements are most quiet. A man of understanding is of an excellent spirit, Prov. 17. 27. or thus, is of a cool spirit, for so the word signifies; his spirit is not heat with passion, there is a cool dew of examination and deliberation upon his spirit, he weighs the circumstances, consequences, and issues of things; he orders and disposes of things so,1 as jars, contradictions and oppositions are prevented. The wisdom that is from above is pure, peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, Jam. 3. 17. Reason and Wisdom have a majesty in them, and will force reverence. Let Passion reverence the presence of Reason, says Basil, as children doing things unseemly are afraid of the presence of men of worth.
THe deepest Seas are the most calme, so men of the deepest judgements are most quiet. A man of understanding is of an excellent spirit, Prov. 17. 27. or thus, is of a coole spirit, for so the word signifies; his spirit is not heat with passion, there is a coole dew of examination and deliberation upon his spirit, he weighs the circumstances, consequences, and issues of things; he orders and disposes of things so,1 as jarres, contradictions and oppositions are prevented. The wisdome that is from above is pure, peaceable, gentle, and easie to be entreated,