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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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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.
Sixthly, In mens lusts there is violence, violence and peace cannot stand together. Isa. 60. 18. God promises peace, and there promises, that violence should be no more heard in their Land. Mens lusts are boisterous and unruly, especially when they have been acting a while; at the first venting they seem to be fair, but after a while they grow outrageous: violent and boisterous dispositions are unfit for society.
Sixtly, In mens lusts there is violence, violence and peace cannot stand together. Isa. 60. 18. God promises peace, and there promises, that violence should be no more heard in their Land. Mens lusts are boisterous and unruly, especyally when they have been acting a while; at the first venting they seem to be fair, but after a while they grow outragious: violent and boisterous dispositions are unfit for society.