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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.
In divers of these cases the consideration of that Text, Eccl. 7. 16. is very suitable; Be not righteous over much, neither make thy self over wise, why shouldst thou destroy thy self? Amongst other things this is included in the scope of the Holy Ghost; when you apprehend a thing to be a truth, do not think that you are bound all times, upon all occasions, to the utmost, profess, practise, promote that truth, without any consideration ⟨p. 76⟩[…] ⟨p. 77⟩[…] ⟨p. 78⟩[…] ⟨p. 79⟩[…] ⟨p. 74⟩[…] ⟨p. 75⟩[…] ⟨p. 76⟩[…] ⟨p. 77⟩[…] ⟨p. 78⟩[…] ⟨p. 79⟩[…] ⟨p. 80⟩of others, being carried on with this apprehension, it is a truth, come of it what will; whatsoev• becomes of me, whatsoever trouble shall follow upon it, I must and will profess it; and publish it again and again to the death: In this you had need look to your spirit, in this you may be over-just, and make your self over-wise; though there may be some uprightness in your heart, some love to Christ and his truth, yet there may be mixture of your own spirit also; you may stretch beyond the rule; this is to be over-righteous, to think out of a zeal to God and his truth, to go beyond what God requires.