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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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It is very dividing: For, first, if while many things lye in mens own thoughts, they cause much strife within themselves; their reasonings are very divers: Though they have all the some tincture from the same affections, and are swayed by the same ends then when these things come abroad, before others, who have not the same reasonings, nor the same affections, to give them such a tincture, but reasonings and affections running quite another way, nor the same ends to ⟨p. 75⟩sway them, but quite different to poise them a cross way, there must needs be much strife, such divisions as will be hard to reconcile. If men sometimes can hardly prevail with their own thoughts to agree, notwithstanding the sway of their own affections and ends; how are they like to agree with others, whose affections and ends are so various from theirs.
It is very dividing: For, first, if while many things lye in mens owne thoughts, they cause much strife within themselves; their reasonings are very divers: Though they have all the some tincture from the same affections, and are swayed by the same ends then when these things come abroad, before others, who have not the same reasonings, nor the same affections, to give them such a tincture, but reasonings and affections running quite another way, nor the same ends to ⟨p. 75⟩sway them, but quite different to poyse them a cross way, there must needs be much strife, such divisions as will be hard to reconcile. If men sometimes can hardly prevail with their own thoughts to agree, notwithstanding the sway of their own affections and ends; how are they like to agree with others, whose affections and ends are so various from theirs.
Secondly, if men do presently profess and practice what §2they conceive to be right, they must necessarily profess and recant, recant and profess; for in many things, what they apprehend to be true at one time, they suspect, yea see cause to deny at another; and what confusion & disorder would there be in matters of Religion, if continually by some or other there should be profession of things as true and good, and calling the same things presently into question, yea within a while denying and renouncing them? And if not so, then