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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.
And now, my brethren, as the Eunuch said to Philip concerning his Baptism, Here is water, what lets but I may be baptized? I shall say concerning our uniting in peace and love ⟨p. 297⟩one with another. Here are Joining Principles, Joining Considerations, Joining Graces, Joining Practices; what now lets, but that we may join in love and peace one with another? Surely nothing can let but extreme corrupt, perverse hearts of our own.
ANd now, my brethren, as the Eunuch said to Philip concerning his Baptisme, Here is water, what lets but I may be baptized? I shall say concerning our uniting in peace and love ⟨p. 297⟩one with another. Here are Joyning Principles, Joyning Considerations, Joyning Graces, Joyning Practices; what now lets, but that we may joyne in love and peace one with another? Surely nothing can let but extreme corrupt, perverse hearts of our owne.
The Apostle Paul is mighty earnest in his desires, in his exhortations for this: 1 Cor. 1. 12. Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together, in the same mind, and in the same judgement. The word translated perfectly joined,1 signifies such a joining, as when a bone is out of joint, is perfectly set right again.
The Apostle Paul is mighty earnest in his desires, in his exhortations for this: 1 Cor. 1. 12. Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joyned together, in the same mind, and in the same judgement. The word translated perfectly joyned,