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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
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Pliny says of the pearls they call Unions,1 though they be engendered in the sea, yet they participate more of the heavens then of the sea. Certainly this precious union, though it be amongst men yet it hath its lustre and beauty, yea its very being from the heavens. You must look up to heaven therefore for peace, for the preservation, increase, lustre, beauty of it, if you would have it.
PLiny sayes of the pearles they call Unions,1 though they be engendred in the sea, yet they participate more of the heavens then of the sea. Certainly this precious union, though it be amongst men yet it hath its lustre and beauty, yea its very being from the heavens. You must look up to heaven therefore for peace, for the preservation, increase, lustre, beauty of it, if you would have it.
- 1Plin. not. hist. lib. 9. cap. 35.Plin. nat. hist. lib. 9. cap. 35.
Job 25. 2. God maketh peace in his high places, the Lord can make peace between high and low. Let us carry mens rugged, crooked, perverse hearts to God in Prayer, who is the great joiner of hearts; it is he that makes men to be of one mind in a house, he maketh the wars to cease. Psal. 122. 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. In your prayers for the Church this must be mentioned as a special blessing. If praying prevail not, fighting will not. Those are the most peaceable men in Church and Common-wealth, that pray most for the peace of them; God hath more prayers for the peace of this Church and State upon the file, of theirs whom some of you account hinderers of it, then of yours. You complain much for want of peace, you inveigh much against those whom you are pleased to mark out as hinderers of the peace, but do you pray as much? You have these means presented unto you for the furtherance of peace; what other you may meet with any way, make use of.