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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.
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 ⟨image 4⟩helpe of the shooe of the preparation of the Gospel of peace, I doe not finde my feet cut.
Peace is precious to me, I feel the sweetness of it; I am willing to do what I can to honour it. The public jars, contentions, disturbances abroad in Church and Common-wealth are very grievous. They say there are in the world such things in Families also. I have brought here some water: if my line had been longer, my bucket had been fuller. You have here what I delivered: some things are added, especially quotations of Authors and Histories. When they grow to be many I think them fitter for the Press then the Pulpit. I was the more willing these things should come forth to public view, because otherwise what other men apprehended to be my mind, would be put into their own words, and so rendered in an evil appearance. But will Printing help? The boldness of this age is such, as not only to make a mans words sound otherwise then when they came from him, and so traduce him; but confidently to aver that there are such things written in such Books, of such men, which never yet came into their thoughts, much less into their pen. With what boldness hath it been said and printed again and again, that I in that Book entitled, The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts, did call the Earle of Essex the Lord of Hosts. Surely the sight of these men is extramittendo, not intramittendo, they send forth species of their own dyed with the evil of their hearts, and then they say they find them in such a book. No man can find that name given by me to him. I indeed endeavoured to encourage him in his work, because the Lord had made him the Lord of our Hosts, which is no more then the Lord of ⟨image 4⟩