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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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CHAP. XIV.
This is a worse, a more dividing Principle then the former; it is worse to make our judgments the rule of other mens actions, then other mens judgements the rule of our actions: This makes men who differ, to have exceeding hard thoughts one of another, it causeth a mighty spirit to rise in them one against another. A man cannot judg worse of another, then this, that he goes against his own light. Of all things conscientious men knows not how to bear this; yet how ordinarily will men who are weak, judg those that are strong, because they cannot see into the reasons of their actions? therefore those that do them, must needs do them against their own light: If they see another mans garb, and manner of converse, and way, to be differing from their own, they presently judge him sinning against his own conscience, to be