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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.
The twelfth.
In seeking to reduce others to good, let it appear that you seek rather to be helpful to them▪ then to get victory over them.
In seeking to reduce others to good, let it appeare that you seek rather to be helpfull to them▪ then to get victory over them.
IT is grievous to a mans nature to be conquered, but not to be helped.1 Ambrose writing to his friend Marcellus about composing some breaches between him and his brother and sister, hath amongst other this excellent expression, I thought that to be the best way, I would have none to be conquered, and all to overcome. The like practice is reported of Scipio, when at the taking of New Carthage two Soldiers contended about the Mural Crown,2 due to him who first climbed the walls, so that the whole Army was thereupon in danger of division, when he came to Scipio, he decides the matter thus: He told them they both got up the wall together, and so gave the scaling Crown to both.
IT is grievous to a mans nature to be conquered, but not to be helped.1