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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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14. Fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a Sceptre to rule, this is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. This is amongst us at this day, and how long it shall continue, God only knows.
14. Fire is gone ont of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that shee hath no strong rod to be a Seepter to rule, this is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. This is amongst us at this day, and how long it shall continue, God onely knows.
What this people were in their divided condition, that we are; and what does this threaten, but that we should be as they a while after this were? namely, a people given up to the rage and fury of the Enemy, which the Lord forbid.
What this people were in their divided condition, that we are; and what does this threaten, but that we should be as they a while after this were? namely, a people given up to the rage and fury of the Enemie, which the Lord forbid.
There is a great out-cry of our divisions, and while we cry out against them, we still increase them; we are angry with men rather, because they are divided from our selves, then because they are divided from the truth; we are angry because every man is not of our own mind, & does not as we do. There was a great deal of do in Luther's time about the seamless coat of Christ. Granvillian the Emperors Deputy in a Speech he made to the Citizens of Worms, 1beseeches them for the death of Christ, and for all loves, that they would amend our Lords coat, which is rent and torn on every side. When Luther laboured to bring Reformation to the Rule, they bad him take heed that he did not rend the seamless coat of Christ; and because they talked so much of the tunica inconsutilis, they were called the Inconsutilistae, the seamless men: And what a stir hath there been in out-cries against men that would not yield to every thing that was enjoined? O they rent the seamless Coat of Christ. I remember Musculus in a Tract he hath De Schismate, hath a witty and pious note upon this, The Soldiers (saith he) would not divide the seamless coat of Christ; but what made them to be so careful of it? was it out of respect to Christ, that they were so unwilling it should be