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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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Fourthly, in mens lusts there is confusion, they cannot §4be kept in order, therefore they must needs cause disturbance, not only in mens own spirits, but to all that have to deal with men acted by them; where there is confusion, there cannot be union; when there is right order in an army, though ⟨p. 106⟩the men be never so numerous, never so differing in other respects, yet if they keep their ranks, they are all but one; but if put to a rout and confusion, then the bond of unity is broken, and every man divides from another to shift for himself.
Fourthly, in mens lusts there is confusion, they cannot §4be kept in order, therefore they must needs cause disturbance, not onely in mens owne spirits, but to all that have to deale with men acted by them; where there is confusion, there cannot be union; when there is right order in an army, though ⟨p. 106⟩the men be never so numerous, never so differing in other respects, yet if they keep their ranks, they are all but one; but if put to a rout and confusion, then the bond of unity is broken, and every man divides from another to shift for himself.
In mens lusts there are contradictions; no virtue is contrary to another, but vices have nothing but contrarieties and contradictions in them. Mens lusts oppose and fight against one another in mens hearts; no marvel then when there are such stirs within, though they break forth into quarrels and contentions without: If a man be quarrelsome in his family, no wonder if when he comes abroad, he quarrels and contends with his neighbours also.
In mens lusts there are contradictions; no vertue is contrary to another, but vices have nothing but contrarieties and contradictions in them. Mens lusts oppose and fight against one another in mens hearts; no marvail then when there are such stirs within, though they break forth into quarrels and contentions without: If a man be quarrelsom in his family, no wonder if when he comes abroad, he quarrels and contends with his neighbours also.