A30587:1154
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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If children should be quarrelling, and one comes to them, and says, Your father stays for you, it is time for them to break off. But not unmannerly with God, in making him stay so long upon you: some of you have made him wait upon you for an acceptable duty of worship divers weeks, yea it may be many months, and yet your spirits are not in temper to offer any sacrifice to God. What a fearful evil is it then to stand out in a stubborn, sullen, dogged manner refusing to be reconciled! Learned Drusius cites Hebrew Writers, saying, That he that offends his brother ought to seek to pacify him; if he refuse to be pacified, then he must bring three ⟨p. 302⟩of his friends with him to intercede twice or thrice, and if he shall after this refuse,1 then he is to leave him, and such a man quia implacabilis est, vocatur peccator, is called a sinner, with a special note upon him.
If children should be quarrelling, and one comes to them, and sayes, Your father stayes for you, it is time for them to break off. But not unmannerly with God, in making him stay so long upon you: some of you have made him wait upon you for an acceptable duty of worship divers weeks, yea it may be many moneths, and yet your spirits are not in temper to offer any sacrifice to God. What a fearfull evill is it then to stand out in a stubborne, sullen, dogged manner refusing to be reconciled! Learned Drusius cites Hebrew Writers, saying, That he that offends his brother ought to seeke to pacifie him; if he refuse to be pacified, then he must bring three ⟨p. 302⟩of his friends with him to intercede twice or thrice, and if he shall after this refuse,1 then he is to leave him, and such a man quia implacabilis est, vocatur peccator, is called a sinner, with a speciall note upon him.
- 1D•usius praet. l. 1. c. 13.