Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

1. Tim. 4. 13. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Ver. 15. Give thy self wholly to them, [Greek or Hebrew], Be in them. And when we see grace added to Learning, it should add much to our esteem of such a man; it is the orient pearl in the gold ring, it is a great testimony to a way, that it is the way of good men, Prov. 2. 20. That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. The judgement and counsel of such is to be received with very great respect, especially if the eminency of their grace appears in the tenderness of their spirits, that we may see much of the fear of God in them. Ezra 10. 3. Now let us make a covenant, according to the counsel of my Lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God. And when not only some few godly men are of this mind, but when it is that which God hath sealed in the hearts of the Saints generally, very high respect is to be given unto it.

1. Tim. 4. 13. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Ver. 15. Give thy selfe wholly to them, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Be in them. And when we see grace added to Learning, it should adde much to our esteem of such a man; it is the orient pearl in the gold ring, it is a great testimony to a way, that it is the way of good men, Prov. 2. 20. That thou maist walke in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. The judgement and counsell of such is to be received with very great respect, especially if the eminencie of their grace appears in the tenderness of their spirits, that we may see much of the feare of God in them. Ezra 10. 3. Now let us make a covenant, according to the counsell of my Lord, and of those that tremble at the commandement of our God. And when not only some few godly men are of this mind, but when it is that which God hath sealed in the hearts of the Saints generally, very high respect is to be given unto it.