A30587:1115
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 tenth.
Labour to get good by the wrongs that are done us.
IF we found God blessing them to us for good, our hearts will be very moderate towards those that have done them. The over-ruling providence of God turning the wrong that Josephs ⟨p. 294⟩brethren had done him to so much good, took off Josephs spirit from practising any evil against them; but when this good shall come to us by the exercise of our own graces, it will be more prevalent to quiet and moderate our spirits. Philip of Macedon thanked some great men of Athens who had brought up ill reports of him, because both in speech and life he was the better labouring by words and deeds to prove them liars: the best answer to ill reports, is to live contrary to them.
IF we found God blessing them to us for good, our hearts will be very moderate towards those that have done them. The over-ruling providence of God turning the wrong that Josephs ⟨p. 294⟩brethren had done him to so much good, took off Iosephs spirit from practising any evill against them; but when this good shall come to us by the exercise of our own graces, it will be more prevalent to quiet and moderate our spirits. Philip of Macedon thanked some great men of Athens who had brought up ill reports of him, because both in speech and life he was the better labouring by words and deeds to prove them liars: the best answer to ill reports, is to live contrary to them.