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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.
3. It is a settled, constant opposition: This hath been in all §3generations the great cause of division between the men of the world, and the Saints, and still it continues the same; you may see the same spirit of the old opposers of godliness and godly men, working in our days; the names of things may be changed, but the same kind of men for the same things are opposed and hated now in the same manner as in former generations.
3. It is a setled, constant opposition: This hath been in all §3generations the great cause of division between the men of the world, and the Saints, and still it continues the same; you may see the same spirit of the old opposers of godlinesse and godly men, working in our days; the names of things may be changed, but the same kind of men for the same things are opposed and hated now in the same manner as in former generations.
4. It is very strong, ungodly men are exceedingly embittered §4against the Saints. Ezek. 26. 6. Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart, with all thy despite against the Land of Israel: This spirit of bitterness and indignation that was in them against the people of God, is seminally at least in all wicked men.
4. It is very strong, ungodly men are exceedingly imbittered §4against the Saints. Ezek. 26. 6. Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoyced in heart, with all thy despight against the Land of Israel: This spirit of bitternesse and indignation that was in them against the people of God, is seminally at least in all wicked men.