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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.
CHAP. XVI.
The Pride of mens hearts the great dividing distemper.1
- 1The first dividing distemper.
Pride is the greatest Master of mis-rule in the world, it is the great incendiary in the soul of man, in families, in Townes, Cities, in all societies, in Church and State: This wind causeth tempests to arise. Prov. 13. 10. Only by pride comes contention. The holy Ghost singles out pride, as the only cause of all contentions, because it is the chief; though there be many in a riot, the whole usually is laid upon the ring-leaders. Pride is the ring-leader to all riots, divisions, disturbances amongst us. Prov. 21. 24. Proud and haughty scorner is his name who dealeth in proud wrath. Pride may be well indicted for the great common Barrator in all Towns, and Cities, and Kingdoms, it makes woeful troubles wheresoever it comes. Mathematicians make this a rule to know when a thing is exactly round, and when it is exactly plain; Round things will not touch but in puncto, if you lay plain things together, they will touch in every part of them.