A30587:1099
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 fifth joining Practice.
The fifth joyning Practice.
Be ingenious; 1. do not lye at the catch to take advantages, 2. make the best interpretation of things you can.
IF God should catch advantages against us, what would become of us? This is most unseemly, when men are seeking to find out truth, if then they shall piddle about words, catch at phrases; get hold of expressions; and seek to make their advantages out of them; and in this shall be the greatest strength of their answer, though this may have a specious show before men, who are willing to receive any thing which makes against what they would have crushed, yet this will not abide before the throne of Christ. We read Matth. 4. Christ had a great dispute with the Devil, in which he had him at great advantage in his quotation of a Scripture, ver. 6. He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at ⟨p. 289⟩any time thou dash thy foot against a stove. This was quoted out of the 91. Psal. ver. 11. there it is, He shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. Yet Christ did not catch this advantage, he did not so much as upbraid him for leaving out that passage, which he might justly have done, but he answers to the thing. Yea Christ might have taken a further advantage against the Devil, for the words following in the Psalm are a prophecy of Christ destroying the power of the Devil, Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon and Adder, the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou trample under thy feet. Christ did not take the advantage of this neither, and upbraid him with it, he had enough against him in the thing it self he brought. It is a sign that men have less advantage in the matter, when they seek so much to catch at all the advantages they can in the manner of the expressions of those whom they oppose.