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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.
The wars meant in this Text are contentions, jars, divisions amongst Christians; though they did not take up the sword one against another, yet there were many quarrels, jars, and divisions amongst them, these came from their lusts. The lusts of mens hearts are very quarrelsome. Storms and tempests are here below in this impure muddy part of the world, in the higher part all is serene, calm, and clear. 1 Cor. 3. 3. For ye are yet carnal; how do's he prove that? whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men? Strifes and divisions do manifest mens hearts to be very carnal.
The wars meant in this Text are contentions, jars, divisions amongst Christians; though they did not take up the sword one against another, yet there were many quarrells, jarrs, and divisions amongst them, these came from their lusts. The lusts of mens hearts are very quarrelsom. Storms and tempests are here below in this impure muddy part of the world, in the higher part all is serene, calm, and clear. 1 Cor. 3. 3. For yee are yet carnall; how do's he prove that? whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnall and walke as men? Strifes and divisions do manifest mens hearts to be very carnall.
August. upon that place, Gen. 15. 10. where God required Abraham to take beasts and birds for sacrifice, the beasts were ⟨p. 104⟩divided,1 cut asunder, but not the birds: Thus (says he, by way of allusion) carnal brutish men are divided one from another, but not the birds, not those who are more spiritual, more celestial.