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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 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.2 Alexander answers, So would I too, if I were what you are; rigour may become you, but gentleness becomes me. Gentleness, mercy, goodness, love, tenderness of others sufferings, are the greatest ornaments to a noble spirit. If this be sanctified, the glory of God shines bright indeed in such a heart. For God glories in this, to be the God of peace and love. 1 Thess. 5. 23. The very God of peace. 2 Thess. 3. 16. The Lord of peace himself. Jesus Christ in being the Prince of peace; the holy Ghost in being like a Dove that hath no gall: the Gospel is the ⟨p. 300⟩Gospel of peace; the Kingdom of God is peace as well as righteousness; the legacy that Christ left is a legacy of peace; the Apostolical benediction is grace, mercy, and peace: the glory of the Church is in this, that it is a City compact at unity within it self. Yea this will be the glory of that glorious Church, that God is raising a new Jerusalem, there shall be no more crying there, Apoc. 21. 4. Ezech. 14. 9. The Lord shall be King over all the earth, in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name shall be one. There is but one Lord now, but he is called by different names, but in that day his name shall be but one.