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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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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.
5ly. The enmity of Antipathy is incurable, it can never be taken away, except one ceases to be in its nature what it was; there can be no compounding things that are so contrary, one of them must cease to be, or turned into another nature, or else the •pposition will be everlasting.
The great divisions amongst us are those that are between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the Serpent; some division▪ there are between those who are the seed of Christ, but the great stirs in the Kingdom come from the evil spirit there is in the seed of the Serpent against the godly in the Land. In the beginning of the Parliament, when mens liberties and estates being involved in one, there was good agreement, all men rejoiced, generally the countenances of those who were not Popish and Prelatical, were serene, they had comfortable aspects one upon another; but when those whose spirits were opposite to the power of godliness, saw how the godly amongst them rejoiced, how their heads were lifted up, how their hearts were filled with hopes of good days, wherein Religion should be countenanced and honoured; that Antipathy that was in their hearts against the ways of God, boy-led in them; though they were glad that they should be freed from some burdens, yet to see those whom they hated in their hearts, to rejoice so much, they could not bear, but their spirit rose against them, and in opposition to them they have raised these stirs, they have made these woeful distractions that are amongst us.