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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 Antipathy the opposition is,
1. In the nature of the things, therefore its deeply rooted, ⟨p. 107⟩it comes not in accidentally; you may find two sheep fighting upon some accident, but the natures are not opposite, like the Wolfe and the Sheep.
2. The cause of this opposition is secret; wicked men have §2their spirits rise against the godly, but they are not able to say why: The husband loved his wife while she was carnal, now God hath turned her heart she is more obedient then ever, she seeks to give him content in all things more then before, she is more useful to him in all occasions, more faithful, every way more lovely then before, only she is godly now, and was not so before; but his heart is now quite off from her, he dares not say that it is for her godliness, if he hath any conviction himself, but so it is that now he looks upon her with an evil eye, & an estranged heart: So a wicked Father or Mother, who loved their child exceedingly, before God was pleased to work upon him, yet now the child is more dutiful then he was, but the heart of the father or mother is taken off from him, can hardly endure him, ready to take any exception against him, their countenances are louring and sad towards him, they can give no reason for this their change, but as they were wont to say of Christians, Such a man is a good man, but he is a Christian. Bonus vir Caius Seius sed Christianus, non amo te, I love you not, but I can give no reason; Hoc tantum possum dicere, Non amo te, all that I can say is this, that I do not love you.