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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.
Like enough these leaves may meet with some boisterous Reader, that may beat them one against another, that may pry and pick to find that in them which is not, looking thorough the contradictions of his own spirit he may think he sees the like here. Let the lines be never so straight, yet he will wrest and pull them what he can to make them lye cross. I am so far from being solicitous that they are so indeed, that the special thing I desire of thee is the laying one thing to another, the comparing one thing with another. Remember what the subject is, Divisions, Differences. I have in it to deal with various spirits, opinions, ways: remember the scope is to seek the composing of them what I can. If you see me now near to the one side, and by and by near to the other, which yet are very wide from one another, be not rash to judge, that I am off my centre; read on, and see what the issue may come to.
Like enough these leaves may meet with some boisterous Reader, that may beat them one against another, that may pry and picke to finde that in them which is not, looking thorough the contradictions of his owne spirit he may think he sees the like here. Let the lines be never so straight, yet he will wrest and pul them what he can to make them lye crosse. I am so far from being sollicitous that they are so indeed, that the speciall thing I desire of thee is the laying one thing to another, the comparing one thing with another. Remember what the subject is, Divisions, Differences. I have in it to deale with various spirits, opinions, wayes: remember the scope is to seeke the composing of them what I can. If you see me now neare to the one side, and by and by neare to the other, which yet are very wide from one another, be not rash to judge, that I am off my center; reade on, and see what the issue may come to.
This path of mine hath been upon sharp stones, cutting shells, and pricking thorns; yet thorough the ⟨image 4⟩help of the shoo of the preparation of the Gospel of peace, I do not find my feet cut.
This path of mine hath beene upon sharpe stones, cutting shels, and pricking thornes; yet thorough the