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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 higher fire ascends, the more it unites; the flame that is broad at the bottom, as it grows high, unites to be as the point of a needle. When the hearts of Christians keep below, and have a great deal of smoke amongst them, they do not so unite; but when they can get up high, O what close, single-hearted union is there […] a crooked and a right line cannot join,1 but two right lines will join in every point.
The higher fire ascends, the more it unites; the flame that is broad at the bottom, as it growes high, unites to be as the point of a needle. When the hearts of Christians keep below, and have a great deal of smoak amongst them, they do not so unite; but when they can get up high, O what close, single-hearted union is there 〈…〉 a crooked and a right line cannot joyn,1 but two right lines will joyn in every point.
- 1How many ways mens lusts cause divisions.How many wayes mens lusts cause divisions.
The lusts of mens hearts cause divisions many ways:
The lusts of mens hearts cause divisions many wayes:
First, they are mens own, therefore they will contend for §1them; nothing is a mans own, so much as his lusts; man aims wholly at himself in satisfying his lust: A Dog will bark, and bite, and fly in a mans face to preserve his own whelps.