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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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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.
First, because of the infinite variety of mens apprehensions about what is good or evil, scarce three men agree any long time in their apprehensions of some things to be evil; if then nothing that is conceived to be evil must be suffered, there must needs be continual opposition between man and man.
First, because of the infinite variety of mens apprehensions about what is good or evill, scarce three men agree any long time in their apprehensions of some things to be evil; if then nothing that is conceived to be evill must be suffered, there must needs be continuall opposition between man and man.
This subjects the generality of men to suffer for many things which they can see no evil in, but are persuaded is good; this raises an animosity against those by whom they suffer; though a man can subject his body and estate to another, he cannot subject his reason to another: In the common ways of justice men are punished for those things, which if they be guilty of, they cannot but acknowledge themselves to be worthy of punishment, as in Theft, Murder, Drunkenness, &c. And for the fact, they are tried in such a way, as they cannot but acknowledge is fit in reason to be subjected to; and therefore, though they suffer much, yet they will yield it without disturbance.
This subjects the generality of men to suffer for many things which they can see no evill in, but are perswaded is good; this raises an animosity against those by whom they suffer; though a man can subject his body and estate to another, he cannot subject his reason to another: In the common ways of justice men are punished for those things, which if they be guilty of, they cannot but acknowledg themselves to be worthy of punishment, as in Theft, Murder, Drunkennesse, &c. And for the fact, they are tryed in such a way, as they cannot but acknowledg is fit in reason to be subjected to; and therefore, though they suffer much, yet they will yeeld it without disturbance.