Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

That is a rule, Whatsoever sin you have been guilty of, though you have for the time life it, yet if you have not been humbled for it, a hundred to one but you fall into it again. Yes, say some, it is fit we should humble our selves for our divisions, we will have days of fasts, that we may do it. But take this note with you, In your days of fast, or at other times when you would thus humble your selves, let it be principally for your own guiltiness herein. Many in their humiliations make great complaints of others, as the cause of divisions, whom it may be God will own, and acquit; take heed of being too forward in meddling with others in your fasts, lest your fasts prove like those, Isay 58. 4. Ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist.

THat is a rule, Whatsoever sinne you have been guilty of, though you have for the time life it, yet if you have not been humbled for it, a hundred to one but you fall into it againe. Yes, say some, it is fit we should humble our selves for our divisions, we will have dayes of fasts, that we may do it. But take this note with you, In your dayes of fast, or at other times when you would thus humble your selves, let it be principally for your owne guiltinesse herein. Many in their humiliations make great complaints of others, as the cause of divisions, whom it may be God will own, and acquit; take heed of being too forward in medling with others in your fasts, lest your fasts prove like those, Isay 58. 4. Ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist.