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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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There are many promises made to this. Mat. 5. Blessed are the peace-makers. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of peace shall be with you. John 15. 12. Christ says, This is his commandment, that we love one another. ver. 14. he says, Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. By loving others we do not only get them to be our friends, but Christ too. Me thinks I see Christ here pleading for love, as one who had to deal with two men who were at some variance, persuading them to peace and love; Come, you shall pass by all former things, you shall be made friends, by this you shall gain me also to be a friend to you as long as I live.
There are many promises made to this. Mat. 5. Blessed are the peace-makers. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Be of one minde, live in peace, and the God of peace shall be with you. John 15. 12. Christ sayes, This is his commandement, that we love one another. ver. 14. he sayes, Ye are my friends if ye doe whatsoever I command you. By loving others we doe not only get them to be our friends, but Christ too. Me thinks I see Christ here pleading for love, as one who had to deale with two men who were at some variance, perswading them to peace and love; Come, you shall passe by all former things, you shall be made friends, by this you shall gaine me also to be a friend to you as long as I live.
Genes. 13. ver. 8. to the end, is a remarkable Scripture to show how God is with a loving, gentle, peaceable disposition. Ver. 8. 9. we have Abraham's kind gentle yielding to Lot his inferior for peace sake; but mark what follows, and you shall find he lost nothing by this his yielding: for as soon as Lot was gone from him, the Lord came to him, ver. 14. and said to him, Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art, Northward, Southward, Eastward and Westward, for