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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.
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.
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) carnall brutish men are divided one from another, but not the birds, not those who are more spirituall, more celestiall.
- 1Carnales inter se dividuntur, spirituals nullo modo Aug. de civit. lib. 16. cap. 14.Carnales inter se dividuntur, spirituales nullo modo Aug. de civit. lib. 16. cap. 14.
Ye walk as men, says the Apostle, ye should not walk as men, ye should walk as it becomes those whose condition is raised above the condition of men, as it becomes Christians the redeemed ones of the Lord; you say, Can flesh and blood endure this? Can any man living bear this? what if flesh and blood, what if a man cannot? A Christian may, a member of Jesus Christ who is God-man, may. Chrysostom in one of his Sermons to the people of Antioch, brings in Gods gracious dealing with Cain, as an example for them to imitate, in their carriage towards those who carry themselves ill towards them; He brings them in also replying, God indeed was gentle and patient toward Cain, for he is God, he is above all passion, but we are but men; he answers them, Therefore did the Son of God come down, that he might make you as near as may be to God.