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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.
I have read of Redwald King of the East Saxons, the first Prince of his Nation that was baptized, in the same place worshipped Christ, and set up an Altar to worship his Idols. Many ⟨p. 7⟩mens spirits lye like that Haven, Acts 26. 12. towards the Southwest and Northwest, two opposite points: Surely their spirits must needs be very winding and crooked which lye towards such opposites.
This dividing with God is very wicked; what communion hath God with Belial? How can you partake of the Table of the Lord, and the Table of Devils? 1 Cor. 10. 21. And lest they should think it a light thing thus to divide with God, he adds, vers. 22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger then he? It is a great provoking of God, and a fighting against him, thus to divide in his worship. To think that God should accept of such a dividing, is to make him cruel, like that Harlot, 1 King. 3. 26. who was content to have the child divided, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but let it be divided. Gods worship is as dear to him as any child can be to the most tender-hearted mother in the world. When Darius would have divided with Alexander, No, says Alexander, there can be but one Sun in the Firmament. If we will be dividing with God, he will cast off all. 2 King. 17. 33. it is said, they feared the Lord, and served their Idols; but vers. 34. it is said, they did not fear God, God accounted a divided fear no fear at all. Verse 16. it is said, They left all the Commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten Images. If they give any part of Gods honour to molten Images, he acknowledges no honour at all given to him, he accounts all his Commandments to be left. So Jer. 32. 23. They have done nothing of all that thou commandest them to do: and vers. 30. The children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me.