A30587:1118
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.
Turn your zeal from working one against another to zeal for God.
Turne your zeale from working one against another to zeale for God.
You will say, Are works of zeal any helps to peace and union? who are they that make the greatest disturbances in the world, but your fiery zealots? if men were of a cooler temper, we should have more peace.
YOu will say, Are workes of zeale any helps to peace and union? who are they that make the greatest disturbances in the world, but your fiery zelots? if men were of a cooler temper, we should have more peace.
Ans. Distempered zeal may cause disturbance; but true zeal, the clear flame of the Spirit of God, making men in their ways zealous not for themselves, but for God, this has the blessing of Gods peace with it. Numb. 25. 12. 13. Phinehas there has the promise of the Covenant of peace, because he was zealous for his God.