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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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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 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.
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 himselfe in satisfying his lust: A Dog will barke, and bite, and flye in a mans face to preserve his own whelps.
Secondly, Mens lusts blind their judgements; Perit judicium §2cum res transit in affectum; when the heart is tainted, the judgement is soon blinded; if the beam of the scale you weigh by, be not straight, the scale that hath the light weight may weigh down the heavier; if our hearts be crooked, warping to any sinful lust, what weight soever there be in any arguments to convince, the scale will go according to the warping of the heart, the conclusion will follow the worser part.
Secondly, Mens lusts blinde their judgements; Perit judicium §2cum res transit in affectum; when the heart is tainted, the judgement is soone blinded; if the beame of the scale you weigh by, be not straight, the scale that hath the light weight may weigh down the heavier; if our hearts be crooked, warping to any sinfull lust, what weight soever there be in any arguments to convince, the scale will goe according to the warping of the heart, the conclusion will follow the worser part.