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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 thirteenth.
Make up breaches as soon as may be.
Make up breaches as soone as may be.
Take them, if it may be; at the beginning. When good men fall out, only one of them is usually faulty at the first, but if such strifes continue any time, both of them become guilty. If you defer the setting of a bone broken, it cannot be done without much difficulty, and great pain. Prov. 17. 14. The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water, therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with, antequam immisceat see, so you may read it, before it be got into thee, and mingle it self in thy heart, or between you and your brother. If your house be on fire, you do not stay quenching it till it breaks out of the roof; divisions that are but sparks, very little at the first, if let alone, grow very high and great in a little time. I have read a story of two sons of the Duke of Florence, Who having been hunting, the one said, My dog killed the Hare, and the other said, Nay but my dog killed it: words multiplied, they grew into a heat, the one draws upon the other and kills him; the servant seeing his master killed, draws upon him who had slain him, and kills him. Neglect not beginnings of quarrels, you know not to what they may grow.
TAke them, if it may be; at the beginning. When good men fall out, onely one of them is usually faulty at the first, but if such strifes continue any time, both of them become guilty. If you deferre the setting of a bone broken, it cannot be done without much difficulty, and great paine.