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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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Evagrius in his Ecclesiastical History records an Epistle of Cyril of Alexandria,1 written to John of Antioch, upon the occasion of a Pacificatory Epistle of John unto him, his spirit was so taken with it that it breaks forth thus: Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, the mid wall of rancour is battered down, the boiling choler which bereaved the minds of quietness, is purged from among us, and all the occasion of discord and dissension is banished away, for our Saviour Jesus Christ hath granted peace unto the Churches under heaven.
Evagrius in his Ecclesiasticall History records an Epistle of Cyrill of Alexandria,1 written to John of Antioch, upon the occasion of a Pacificatory Epistle of John unto him, his spirit was so taken with it that it breaks forth thus: Let the heavens rejoyce, and let the earth be glad, the mid wall of rancour is battered downe, the boyling choler which bereaved the mindes of quietnesse, is purged from among us, and all the occasion of discord and dissention is banished away, for our Saviour Iesus Christ hath granted peace unto the Churches under heaven.
- 1Evargius l. 1. cap. 6.
The Thebans made Harmonia a goddess,1 they accounted her the defender and patroness of their City. Harmonious, peaceable, uniting dispositions, have much of God in them; if not from sanctifying grace, yet it is from a common work of the Spirit of God: there is a nobleness in such a heart. By the Laws of England Noblemen have this privilege, that none of them can be bound to the peace, because it is supposed that a Noble disposition will never be engaged in brawls and contentions, it is supposed that the peace is always bound to him, that of his own accord he will be careful to preserve it. It is the base Bramble that rends and tears. Nazianzen reports of Alexander, who having taken a City, and consulting what to do, one Parmenius answered, If he were King he would raze the City to the ground.